When did America, go to Hell

[slow eddie]

i do agree with the start of the end in the 60's, but for a different reason. i do believe that when the mother had to go to work to make ends meet was the downfall of the family as a unit.look around at all of the kids getting out oof school and going home to a parentless house. there is absolutely no disipline being done to these kids today. see it in my grandkids all the time. just grit my teeth and move on. when was the last time that you saw kids playing ball in a vacant lot without adult supervision of any kind.
politicians really get my goat. 500 lobbiest for the state of r.i. one making 600 large a year. if you believe that there doing what they do to help the common worker, i've got some nice oceanfront propiety in olnyville with a view. my .02

[justplugit]

Originally Posted by slow eddie

i do agree with the start of the end in the 60's, but for a different reason. i do believe that when the mother had to go to work to make ends meet was the downfall of the family as a unit.

I see that too as another contributing factor. Imo,Women's Lib was for all the right reasons in allowing women to be equal to men in pay and promotion.

However, i think alot of women took it to the extreme in wanting it all- career,marriage, children, and i'm not so sure in the 60s, women did it to make ends meet as much as wanting to have it all. Today most do it to make ends meet, but man, having to have new cars, flat screen tv, and a million other material things is not making ends meet.

Having been involved in helping to bring up my Grandkids in 2 parent working families i've seen first hand the damages to the family.

Parents getting up 5am to get their kids off to day care, or to their grandparent's, working to 6pm, picking up the kids, cooking, cleaning, getting the kids to bed, getting ready for the next day.

Two ships passing in the night, no time for communication. Then filling alot of nights and weekends with kid's activities and taking them out to dinner to spend time with them.

It's insane, i've seen the frazzled looks and physical exhaustion.
I gotta beleive that pschycotropic drugs are not the second most prescribed drugs for nothing.

Just not the way a family is intended to be.

[Trunky]

Not long after the WHITEMAN stepped on shore