>>472004>Why the fuck are american parents so intimately involved in scouts?>Has it always been this way?It wasn't when I was in Boy Scouts in the late 1970s.
The weekly meetings were held in the local elementary school gym, with 3-4 men in attendance (scout master, assistant) while the camp outs had a couple more men, as X number of vehicles were needed but sometimes dads (like mine) who weren't into camping, would drive up and back for camp outs simply as transportation.
Moms were only in attendance for special awards dinners.
Now on the other hand, Cub Scouts in my day was wholly run by moms, with each Den of 6-8 kids being operated out of one of kid's parent's basements, but that was mostly just fucking around gluing macaroni on milk cartons and easy safe field trips to the farm and such.
Once we got into Webelos, it was all guys from there on out.
