Your Atticus Finch Moment ?
We would all like to to think that we grew up in a Town called Maycomb Alabama Obviously the backdrop of the Great Depression and of racism are not subjects to be trivialised Here , but the thought of growing up with a parent with the stature of Atticus Finch is perhaps every child's ( and indeed Adult's dream) when they survey their childhood with rose tinted or tired eyes My parents were too wrapped up in their own issues to really be bothered with the moral dilemmas in side their kids' heads. Having said this I do remember one Atticus moment amid a brown 1970s childhood. I had gone to bed , but had got up to listen to a family discussion from the safety of the top of the stairs. The discussion was centred around someone known to the family who had been caught in a gay clinch so to speak and it is important to remember here that in the 1970s, this sort of thing was deemed rather shocking to say the least. Amid the head shaking and the " shame" comments one voic...