Perhaps you didn't cook dinner, but you did heat some leftovers for the kids. Maybe you arrived to find them tucked in, read them a story, turned out the lights, watched TV. You knew who to call if anything serious came up.
Starting in the mid-20th century, the young sitter became an emblem of American girlhood-both a classic coming-of-age character and a locus of anxieties about girls' growing autonomy.
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