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[charlot22]

That's the world that I grew up in and I miss it.

[nissim42]

That's the world that I grew up in and I miss it.

The newer system isn't perfect, but in some ways it's much better than the old one. My Mother, who was a little kid in 1958 remembers the parents of her friends not letting her come over for parties because her parents were divorced. As if it was her fault. And these days kids who are being abused aren't ignored and something is done about it. Yes, a lot of times the people in authority go too far. But it's because they're trying to protect people that were going unprotected before.

[syvwkh]

Life was simpler and a lot more relaxed back then. People respected each other. People respected the government because the government was much more respectable.
Everybody knew their neighbors, and a neighborhood was often closer than some families are now.
People got married BEFORE they had children. Married couples tended to stay married.
Most men had jobs, while most women were home makers.
Drugs were available, but it was not respectable to use them. Few people did.
Over the past 72 years, I have seen the destruction of the family, the dollar shrinking down 80 or 90 per cent, education going down the toilet, soaring crime rates. I still love this country, but we need to return to some of the values of the 1950s.

Has anybody ever watched some of the sitcoms from the fifties?
They were idealized, of course, but not so terribly unrealistic as young people think.