"For instance, as a kid, you belonged to everybody on your block. That was your family. I mean, they were concerned about, well, overall behavior. Not only overall behavior, but just you in general, they were concerned about you going... How well you were doing in school. They would talk to you about what their positions were, what they were doing, when you would be, you know, at their homes and what have you. They give you some background of what they were, what their total involvement was as a parent "
Lakeland Digital Archive - Lakeland Community Heritage Project (LCHP) Picture source: https://archive.lakelandchp.com/collection/item/2203
MSCollaboratory · Arthur Dock