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23. I had them all except mumps. Neither my father nor I ever got them despite being exposed

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Mon Mar 2, 2020, 03:55 PM

Mar 2020

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Do any of you other boomers remember parents exposing their kids to common childhood diseases [View all] rzemanfl Mar 2020 OP

My mother didn't do it purposely, it just happened in normal course, but she also got me vaccinated. Thomas Hurt Mar 2020 #1

Same here Leith Mar 2020 #12

My mom was an RN , and smart. apcalc Mar 2020 #52

My Mom was an RN, too csziggy Mar 2020 #56

My mom also started out as an RN and she had us vaccinated for everything, but there was smirkymonkey Mar 2020 #100

Oh, yeah - my Dad had a bad case of shingles csziggy Mar 2020 #117

Wow. I had shingles too, but I was lucky. zackymilly Mar 2020 #121

He had the shingle pain in his upper back then lower back from deteriorating vertebrae csziggy Mar 2020 #130

I'm so sorry you are suffering from it. I have heard it is horrible. smirkymonkey Mar 2020 #126

This is something I've had for 45 years csziggy Mar 2020 #138

Not before vaccines, it wasn't child abuse. Ms. Toad Mar 2020 #91

I'm talking about people NOW deliberately exposing their children, apcalc Mar 2020 #97

This was the question posed: Ms. Toad Mar 2020 #98

You mean like chicken pox parties? getagrip_already Mar 2020 #129

Ours was via lollipops licked b the person with chicken pox. Ms. Toad Mar 2020 #131

Deliberate? apcalc Mar 2020 #132

Deliberate exposure. That's what the question was asking about. Ms. Toad Mar 2020 #136

I know what the question was. apcalc Mar 2020 #137

My mom was also an RN and a WWII army nurse. zackymilly Mar 2020 #119

That's what I remember mcar Mar 2020 #73

No. The Velveteen Ocelot Mar 2020 #2

Mine didn't do it Rorey Mar 2020 #3

Gen Xer JustAnotherGen Mar 2020 #4

Yep. happybird Mar 2020 #115

Nope my folks would never do that. redstatebluegirl Mar 2020 #5

I didn't say mine did. I know parents used to hope their boys got mumps. rzemanfl Mar 2020 #10

True because mumps often caused sterility in adult men, but not boys. Liberty Belle Mar 2020 #79

I'm not a boomer (X'er) but remember it being talked about as though many still did it ... mr_lebowski Mar 2020 #6

I remember that happening for Chicken Pox Mz Pip Mar 2020 #7

Yes! luvs2sing Mar 2020 #8

I know of many who did. 2naSalit Mar 2020 #9

Mine certainly did Chainfire Mar 2020 #11

Mine did too. I was retested when I went back to my university and I still have the antibodies. TheBlackAdder Mar 2020 #125

Yes in the church nursery Runningdawg Mar 2020 #13

Ha! n/t rzemanfl Mar 2020 #14

No. Cross contamination was a consequence of contact at school, etc Siwsan Mar 2020 #15

Mine did not do that, Greybnk48 Mar 2020 #16

While I don't remember my parents deliberately doing it robbob Mar 2020 #17

Mumps, I believe. n/t rzemanfl Mar 2020 #19

Not on purpose. We were all Polly Hennessey Mar 2020 #18

They didn't have those vacs in my time. Kingofalldems Mar 2020 #22

I remember UK parents in the early 80s wondering whether to expose their sons to mumps muriel_volestrangler Mar 2020 #20

Never heard of that until I was an adult. Kingofalldems Mar 2020 #21

I had them all except mumps. Neither my father nor I ever got them despite being exposed rzemanfl Mar 2020 #23

I don't remember anything like that, but I did have a memory this morning of Vinca Mar 2020 #24

I posted about polio. rzemanfl Mar 2020 #25

I don't know why that memory came back so vividly this morning. Vinca Mar 2020 #31

Several of us Moms had a chicken pox party SoCalDem Mar 2020 #26

My parents, thank god, believed in science lapfog_1 Mar 2020 #27

There were no vaccines back then for measles, chicken pox or mumps. n/t rzemanfl Mar 2020 #30

No. Measles out break in '58 to 62 may have led to 2 of my aunt's miscarriages irisblue Mar 2020 #28

I had a woman pediatrician who of course was constantly exposed to these diseases- dawg day Mar 2020 #38

Measles was a flat rash? shanti Mar 2020 #42

Yep. n/t rzemanfl Mar 2020 #51

Oh, I've always been a scratcher. dawg day Mar 2020 #57

I did too! radical noodle Mar 2020 #109

I had chicken pox and a really high fever. cwydro Mar 2020 #86

Yes. Mugu Mar 2020 #29

Late boomer. Never heard of that until recently. Eugene Mar 2020 #32

There were no shots back then radical noodle Mar 2020 #111

Mine did, I remember when she took me to visit my cousin who had chickenpox, so I would get it and Meadowoak Mar 2020 #33

No, we didn't have to be deliberately exposed. dawg day Mar 2020 #34

Yes, mine did with me. greatauntoftriplets Mar 2020 #35

Yes! Measles frogmarch Mar 2020 #36

vaccinations were what anybody with any sense did (and wanted for their children) stopdiggin Mar 2020 #37

I don't believe vaccinations were available. rzemanfl Mar 2020 #43

for the boomers? certainly were for me! (nt) stopdiggin Mar 2020 #53

See post below regarding availability of vaccinations for mumps, measles and chickenpox. rzemanfl Mar 2020 #54

oh we got chicken pox stopdiggin Mar 2020 #59

Interested in the source for your list. n/t rzemanfl Mar 2020 #62

The chickenpox vaccine was not licensed in the US until 1995. Both of my kids born 1989 seaglass Mar 2020 #84

As did my daughter, born in 1990. Ms. Toad Mar 2020 #94

Those years are not entirely accurate. PoindexterOglethorpe Mar 2020 #85

Not for me radical noodle Mar 2020 #113

No vaccinations in my childhood, except Whooping cough, diptheria and ... and....???? nt LAS14 Mar 2020 #46

DPT: Diptheria, Pertussis, Tetanus. Smallpox was separate. Hekate Mar 2020 #75

First, short term mumps vaccine 1948. Improved upon in the '60s. (Wikipedia) rzemanfl Mar 2020 #49

whatever was available .. we were getting them stopdiggin Mar 2020 #58

The MMR vaccine became available in 1971. Ms. Toad Mar 2020 #93

Nope. Polio was still around... TygrBright Mar 2020 #39

No but I remember parents keeping me out of school until chicken pox MaryMagdaline Mar 2020 #40

Intentionally? No. But they didn't panic about them, either...nt Wounded Bear Mar 2020 #41

That was the way my parents were. n/t rzemanfl Mar 2020 #50

Like German measles parties for girls. nt tblue37 Mar 2020 #44

Yup. Measles and chicken pox. I think it was a good thing because... LAS14 Mar 2020 #45

Mine never did, and that was in the 50s when polio was still around. kskiska Mar 2020 #47

Not intentionally but didn't quarantine me from neighbor kids tavernier Mar 2020 #48

Pretty sure that my dad did it to me, I am a GenXer The Genealogist Mar 2020 #55

Yep. jeffreyi Mar 2020 #60

YES! BigDemVoter Mar 2020 #61

Yes! karynnj Mar 2020 #63

My dad was an RN, and I come from a smart family anyway, so we got our vaccinations. Aristus Mar 2020 #64

Oh yes, and I came down with everything. Totally Tunsie Mar 2020 #65

Yes. For chicken pox. mainer Mar 2020 #66

No, but all us kids caught every sort of procon Mar 2020 #67

Did you read the whole thread? Jail seems a bit extreme. rzemanfl Mar 2020 #68

It's child abuse. When someone wants to deliberately procon Mar 2020 #74

True if there is a vaccine. Before vaccines,for diseases worse in adulthood, I understand this. Liberty Belle Mar 2020 #78

Mumps and measles and their effects on adults are "conspiracy theories?" rzemanfl Mar 2020 #83

Nonsense. Ms. Toad Mar 2020 #95

I had a microbiology professor whose younger daughter got chicken pox Ilsa Mar 2020 #69

That seems like a dumb thing for a microbiology professor to do. pnwmom Mar 2020 #127

He wanted them both to have it at the same time, Ilsa Mar 2020 #139

But by the time his younger daughter got it, she would have naturally given it to her younger sister pnwmom Mar 2020 #140

Yes, our friends got sent over treestar Mar 2020 #70

Just before Christmas one year one of my siblings came home with malaise Mar 2020 #71

No. No. No. NO! I remember each and every one of those diseases from having caught them... Hekate Mar 2020 #72

It's not a urban legend. Ms. Toad Mar 2020 #96

I think this thread establishes this is not an urban legend. n/t rzemanfl Mar 2020 #106

Yes, I remember some parents doing that with chicken pox before the vaccine. Liberty Belle Mar 2020 #76

Pox parties is how you got your kids exposed to it Fullduplexxx Mar 2020 #77

I had to stay home for a week C_U_L8R Mar 2020 #80

Yes!! agingdem Mar 2020 #81

I only remember getting small pox and polio in the sugar cube. MuseRider Mar 2020 #82

I'm not a boomer, but some parents would hold chicken pox parties in the 70's KWR65 Mar 2020 #87

My dad married a doctor. He was sick for the first years of my parents' applegrove Mar 2020 #88

Yep. That's how I got the mumps. n/t trackfan Mar 2020 #89

Yup. I was the exposure vector for mumps - lollipop time! Ms. Toad Mar 2020 #90

That was a thing for chickenpox as late as the '80's or '90's Spider Jerusalem Mar 2020 #92

My mother survived polio MrsMatt Mar 2020 #99

Wow, this really happened? Polybius Mar 2020 #101

Went to two Chicken Pox Parties. I didn't take...lol. Iggo Mar 2020 #102

Only chicken pox TexasBushwhacker Mar 2020 #103

Diagnosed with chicken pox aged 34 MrsMatt Mar 2020 #107

Goodness! Glad you and the baby were okay TexasBushwhacker Mar 2020 #135

Absolutely radical noodle Mar 2020 #104

Not just no customerserviceguy Mar 2020 #105

It happened. Denying it doesn't change that. Different times, rzemanfl Mar 2020 #108

I sure wish customerserviceguy Mar 2020 #110

Not until 1995 in the U.S. I am not sure whether the chicken pox/shingles connection rzemanfl Mar 2020 #112

Whether it was known or not customerserviceguy Mar 2020 #114

True on both counts. Vaccines can be risky too. Kids died from the Salk polio rzemanfl Mar 2020 #118

I don't remember that customerserviceguy Mar 2020 #122

I read it in a book, years later. rzemanfl Mar 2020 #124

The connection between the two was verfified in 1953. n/t rzemanfl Mar 2020 #116

I heard about this but I don't remember people actually doing it Skittles Mar 2020 #120

Mine either, but I heard about it back in the day. Plenty of people here verify. rzemanfl Mar 2020 #123

Yes, but not to "get it over with" Mossfern Mar 2020 #128

Aware of that. I am male, born in 1947. For boys, mumps was the issue. rzemanfl Mar 2020 #133

Chicken Pox Party at mom's house! VOX Mar 2020 #134

Yeah, it was called 'going to school.' Dem2theMax Mar 2020 #141