Off topic (sorry) but just as an aside to another of Lizzies 'facts'

"in the same way that young people are now, told they must leave home by 16/17..made to feel weird if they don't"

In FACT,

The growing reluctance of Britain's twenty- and thirtysomethings to fly the parental nest was revealed last April by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) in its annual report on the latest social trends.
The latest available figures were for the second quarter of 2008. They showed 29% of men aged 20-34 and 18% of women of the same age lived with their parents.
This compared with 27% of men and 15% of women in 2001.

"Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts." - Daniel Patrick Moynihan

I was a tennager in the 50s and 60s - my memory is quite different from Lizzies who must have been pre school age in the 50s I think; but maybe my advanced years have given me a better long term memory of the times :)