What are the effects on the family that comes with the increased mobility of the automobile?
Family vacations that are taken days and miles away from home–periods of boredom for the kids in the back seat, providing an opportunity to experience a place and people different from home. Another is that kids are driven to more activities after school, which leads to fast food dinners, which may or may not be eaten in the care, and homework done in the car. Terms like “shotgun!”, calling of places to sit in the car. Another change is that more kids are driven to school, so have their own schedules, instead of having to plan the time to walk or bikeride to school. There are more…
