51 Old-School Parenting Photos That Would Never Fly Today

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When People Didn’t Care Whether Racoons Had Rabies or Not

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Apparently back in the early 1920s, racoons were kept as pets. Wait, you mean these rabid, garbage-eating, sharp-clawed night critters aren’t meant to be domesticated? You could have fooled us! Someone must have forgotten to tell First Lady, Mrs. Coolidge, that rather than cuddle a pet raccoon named Rebecca, she should have just stuck to her dogs like the rest of the White House inhabitants. No matter how sweet this critter might have been, there’s no way a modern mom would collar, leash and carry a raccoon, what more let one near her kids.