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Originally Posted by HandballJim
Back then women stayed home and cooked all day, these days the women needs to work to. You have many divorced families, your parents might have been together when you were a kid...and then later split. People are more consumed in other things, TV, internet, hobbies, etc. Growing up we had 7 TV channels, now 500 channels...no internet. The family back in the days just had more values, these days parents don't even tell their kids to stop running in the house. Families don't all live on the same block anymore...they might have to relocate for work, etc.
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I do not buy the woman stayed home excuse since I was raised in a divorced family. I also know that both my grandmother and grandfather held 9-5 or 6-5 jobs since they were teenagers until retirement age. Heck even my great grandparents both worked. Depending on which generation they also had added tasks or much more difficult chores to boot. For instance my parents were the first to have a dishwasher, a washing machine, a dryer, and a microwave. Was not until my grandparents before someone had a machine operated lawn mower. Most all of them also had to do other things that we do not have to thanks to availability of so many items at the grocery store.
Saying we have more distractions that can eat up time I fully agree with. Does not really count to making us more busy or us getting more done though. To take it even further it seems we try to bog things down on all scales. Going through some old films and albums I saw how they could build anything from bridges and dams to huge buildings in fractions of the time it takes today. Also find it curious that more and more people seem to work longer hours yet get less done, and even after someone leaves work they still work some more.