Were things better in the 50s

@samueltyler2 no, I believe I said that black one not treated right, and that there was an air quality.

Yes, I do realize that women have to work to help take care of their families, but there have been way too many divorces and families don’t stay together, but things were better when mothers were at home and took care of their children and both the mother and the father was involved in their children’s lives

@missyann you ate entitled to your opinion. But, if you long to return to an era that you don't seem to really know enough about, that is your choice, but look at the "standard of living" that existed at the time you want to roll us back to. Take a careful look. I take offense to your comment suggesting that mother's and fathers are involved more now than at that time. The data from many studies does not support that, there is evidence that over the past two decades fathers have become more involved in their homes, helping with domestic chores and raising their children.

As for the way you mentioned the treatment of all minorities, you made it seem like a little problem. It was and still is a major societal problem.

@samueltyler2 I thought you said it am I m entitled to my opinion.

I did live in the sixties. Yes mothers and fathers Were more involved with raising their children. Parents didn’t run and get a divorce. It get a divorce, and it wasn’t easy back then.. we didn’t have cell phones babysitting us.mothers didn’t think about “ careers “. I realize that some have to work today but not All because they have to it’s because kids are entitled.

The standard of living was much better. People could afford family homes. How is that for everybody today?? Everybody blames boomers for not being able to. Mothers and fathers didn’t need “me time “. You went on family vacations.

You think what you want. But children didn’t need their own cars. The most expensive. They got after school jobs. Not all went to college. There were good labors jobs. My dad worked at a union job. We had great medical insurance

Think what you want about parenting being better. I say that’s bullshit

@missyann I reiterate that you are welcome to your opinion, but, i suggest that before you make such statements, look at the literature, and the data. Many people seem to have this mythical love of the 1950s and 1960s. By the way, go back and re-read your original post, the title is was: Were things better in the [b]50s[/b], I put the emphasis on the 50s. To compare the cost of living I did a google search:

"The cost of a house in the 1950s was about $15,000, compared to $200,000 today. The younger family paid $3,500 in down payment and $125 a month. On the other hand, the average household income was $3,300.00, which was $200 up in 1949.Jul 14, 2020" The emphasis on household income was my addition.

another comparison"
"Did Americans have a higher standard of living in the 1950s than current 2020s?
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lol as strange as it sounds, I have seen countless leftists and neo-nazis say the exact same thing so I am confused.
I do think there was the post-WW2 economic boom but, bloody hell- you were also facing nuclear war with the USSR. Do not even forget the huge sexism, racism, and homophobia...
Ex. leftists will say there was no healthcare debt in 1950s. Ok but, that was because the healthcare was so garbage no? If you had a heart attack in 1950s, you would basically just get a bed and most likely just die. Now in 2020, there are numerous healthcare breakthroughs so you get costly drugs and expensive tests done. Life expectancy is still much higher now than in 1950s especially with things like ACA. https://www.politifact.com/article/2012/jan/20/was-early-1960s-golden-age-health-care/
Likewise, people in 2020 have bigger and better homes (like AC), more safer cars, etc
People in 2020 are working so much less and have much more paid time off than in the 1950s and they have much more food, electronics, and resources.
https://www.dallasfed.org/fed/~/media/documents/fed/annual/1999/ar93.pdf"

other websites that looks at this:
https://thinkbiglivetiny.wixsite.com/thinkbiglivetiny/single-post/2016/09/14/cost-of-living-1950s-vs-now
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/are-americans-better-off-than-they-were-a-decade-or-two-ago/

@samueltyler2 My original post is about FAMILY life being better. Even those who were considered poor had a strong connection. I grew up in a small mid western town with a lot of farm. They gave more than anyone to help. Those don’t exist anymore because of government takeover.

Yes, the advances in medicine a
we’ve made are priceless. But technology in just about everything else is destroying the family, labor’jobs. No one can afford to go to college and there are not enough jobs for them who graduate

Technology is great. I think keeping it out of the hands of family homes especially kids wouldn’t have had negative effects that it has had.

Listen to the song “ in the year 2525 “ Zager & Evan. You tell me these guys were ahead of their times, and didn’t see some thing. This is all beginning to happen. We won’t make it to the year 25,25.

@missyann You can't have one thing without the other. Look at what I posted comparing standard of living corrected for family and year. What I do miss, is that in the 1950s women who worked tended to teach. Many had graduate degrees and taught so they were home when their children returned from school.. I think the average education level of those women is far greater than those now teaching, i remember only one poor teacher of all of those i had. The downside of fem-lib was not the break up of families, it was lowering of the background of the teachers. Many of the advances in medicine were made by women, who, if you had it your way, would have been stuck at home baking brownies!