Responses on: "What do you wish, if anything, was different about your childhood?"

Informant #159418: I wish that my dad didn't have to work so much, and I wish he was younger.

Informant #159512: I do wish I could have been a little more exposed to the world. I was pretty naive having grown up protected. And it cost me a lot of heartache and pain realizing that people were far from perfect, as I had always perceived them to be.

Informant #159528: I wish my dad was home more...That's all...But he was in the Army and I know understand that whole concept...

Informant #159543: Nothing. It made me who I am today. And although I am seriously flawed, I am also accute at picking up on subtle signals and cues that something is going on with other people and my own children. I fully believe that if something like that were going on with my children or a friend of theirs that I would notice it. I wouldn't just keep letting it happen when all the signs are right there in plain site. And if a child ever came to me and flat out told me something bad was going on, I WOULD NOT blow them off by telling them they were "misinterpreting".

Informant #159553: I wish my mom would have put her kids before or equal to her husband and that my father woulda stepped up to the plate because hes a great man but was a slacker father but at the same time no because i wouldnt be who i am today!

Informant #159590: I wish my parents and I communicated more. I wish they were less strict, and that we spent more time together doing fun things.

Informant #159837: more time with my mom, but I hang out with her all the time now as an adult. I regret some things I did to my dad too we didn't talk for awhile but he broke our family apart.

Informant #159942: No much, maybe that we lived on a lot of land and had horses