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Date: 2013-04-10 03:03 pm (UTC)I wonder why US parents in the immediate postwar era had all this barely-sublimated fear of their young children, or at least why SF/horror writers felt compelled to poke at it so often.
Obviously, the monster baby or devil baby is a basic body-horror thing combined with the resentment first-time parents have about their lives being upended; and parents also naturally get anxious about bad influences making their kids grow up wrong. But this seems to be something a bit different, an anxiety about the whole rising generation of children in and of themselves. And I wonder how much of the history of the Boomers arises from it.