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<p>I attended a college that was a 10 hour drive away by car and an hour ride by plane. Need to visit me in an emergency? </p>
<p>That thought would struck my parents as absurd barring incapacitating injuries or impending death for the following reasons:</p>
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<li><p>Dad was completely on his own and had to survive on his wits since he was 12 due to being orphaned and having to leave home due to a civil war. </p></li>
<li><p>In their adolescence/young adulthood, college students were expected to behave and act as independent adults…especially considering there was 2 year mandatory military service for males 18 and up and women of the same age had to participate in civil defense drills…including training at military bases with live weapons. Would have been a bit difficult for parents to visit their 18+ son/daughter during their military service/civil defense training period…especially considering this was a period of heightened security concerns due to the prevailing tensions in the Taiwan Straits of the 1950’s. </p></li>
<li><p>In the folks of my parents’/older relatives’ generation…if they felt their child was so needy and incapable of managing on their own to the extent they’d entertain such concerns, they wouldn’t let that child go to college period. That would have been a manifest sign said child was “not college material”.</p></li>
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