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Originally Posted by Rande273
I think that the world was a better place when the woman would stay home and take care of the house and the kids. The end of moral family values ended with womens lib. around in the mid. 60's. When ever I look at a Norman Rockwell painting I wish that life was like that now. Mothers and daughters were in the kitchen baking pies while Fathers and sons fixed a broken barn door or went fishing.
Now both parents work while the kids spend all day on the internet or playing violent video games.
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The good ole days never existed. And only rich women could stay at home full-time. Women from middle class and the working poor always worked even when they had little kids and dads worked too. Alot did housecleaning of rich people's homes, child care, and restaurant work. Moral family values have always existed to a certain extent throughout history. Before the 1960s there were pedophiles, alcoholic dads who beat their kids, stay at home moms who popped pills and drank all day while the maids and nannies raised the kids until they were old enough to go to boarding school. Also, don't forget that domestic violence, including husbands raping wives, was not even a crime until the 1970s when women finally used the civil rights movement as a springboard for women's rights. I don't think a world where blacks and whites couldn't eat at the same tables, use the same restrooms, and attend the same schools is a world I would long for. Black men gained certain rights even before white women! That's how bad life for a lot women was. Also, men could have their wives institutionalized in mental institutions for life if they didn't want to pay the cost of divorce and to get revenge against them. It's called gaslighting. see the movie "Gaslight" to watch how it goes down. It was because of this that committing adults to mental hospitals is thankfully very difficult to do these days. The Norman Rockwell view of life is only one picture of life. Of course it exists today for some people, just as it existed for a small minority of people back then too.