(09-05-2016, 03:37 AM)taramarie Wrote:(09-05-2016, 03:32 AM)Galen Wrote:How many families during the 50s were dysfunctional emotionally by being stuck together in an unhappy relationship meanwhile affecting the children compared to now? Clearly it was enough to create a rebellion from that kind of relationship.(09-05-2016, 03:13 AM)taramarie Wrote:(09-05-2016, 03:01 AM)Galen Wrote: I am not suggesting a return to the fifties but what they did generally worked better. You might want to try to create some of the same effects in a different way. This fourth turning is going to be ugly and I don't think what you consider as the status quo is going to survive. Too many really bad decisions have been made over the last fifty years and I don't think the bill can be delayed much longer.
I have heard from early boomers about what life was like with a whole family under one roof. They were financially well off and the family was whole but was it always better for the child? Not always. The man or woman would be cheating behind back. They could be emotionally separated and sometimes fighting with the child stuck in the household hearing all of that knowing that it did as much damage or even worse, emotional scarring long lasting effects. So while financially they were better off it was not always a positive story for the couple and their children. So yes there were positives it was as damaging for the children till the couple divorced. Yeah divorce also has negative consequences for a child seeing their parents separate but also financially. Anyway that is just my thoughts after hearing from early boomers what life was like. I am not sure how we can replicate the 50s in a more modernized society. Families have always been dysfunctional. One emotional and the other financial.
On average it worked out better. Trust me on this, I am in a position to know. Look up the crime statistics on children from single parent households some time. It is not a pretty picture.
Fewer than the ones that were screwed up in the seventies. Even the Boomers that were in a good situation rebelled as hard as that may be for you to understand because it just what they did. They really think that they can shape the world arbitrarily with no consquences. They are going to spend their Golden Years denying they did anything wrong because the truth is too terrible for them to accept. Boomers don't ask questions which I suspect is because they are afraid they won't like the answers. For Generation X sometimes questions are all we have, there are very few certainties for us.
Take it from an Xer, sometimes you only get to choose from bad or worse. Judging from the statistics after the sixties, the Boomers have fucked up far more people, per capita, than the Lost or the GIs ever did. I judge them from their results. Truth is, I got far better advice from them then I ever did from the Boomers.
Only through uncertainty can understanding come. You may be far too certain about things for your own good. Only time will tell if I am right about that. In the end it always does.
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If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises