AlphaXi, of course I would not take any comments personally! I enjoy a good debate and offering of different views.
That said, I still feel like being in a family like that, people leanr about social prominence, propriety and role models. I hear this especially from Southern people, thouhg I know other geographic areas have strict social hierarchies too. Even if the family is not "famous" or political, they have to be careful because the neighborhood knows or the political circle will find out or any number of other groups. Even "small-scale" families can be "anal" about that. LIke remember in American Beauty, wasn't there something about the mom being mad at the husband for his behavior and how he got the job at mcdonald's and all hat. And she was only trying to protect her small town realtor's rep. Even if you try to protect your child from scrutiny, the Bushes are certainly on the higher end of scrutiny and I think if they refused to be realistic with their daughters about the scrutiny they would face, they were somewhat irresponsible.
Maybe I, in Califnornia, didn't know till about 2 years ago about Bush's twin daughters, but that circle of knowledge didn't just appear one day. It begins small. And with the Bushes, small is still a big social circle. And it grows as certain people enter the limelight more. So, I feel confident that even when the girls were young, proactical people would know that other people were wathcing. Whether it was just the people in their town where the ranch was or, like now, the whole country, the Bushes have always been news.
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