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Originally Posted by Spencer Collins
Unfortunatly,people have become prisoner to their possesions.Young parents start out with two careers to "make ends meet" and the cycle begins.Once they finally get ahead,they can't quit because of those posessions.This forces society to deal with the decisions they made.I have heard so many friends say that their wives cannot quit working. When I ask why?..they say they can't make the mortgage payment on their cottage or they would lose the boat..  Some of their kids are in rehab and others have quit high school.Some of their kids are on their 3rd marriage and they have not reached the age of 35.I blame some of these parents,they got ahead financially at the expense of their children,they know this to be true but they remain in denial. |
Same here. I know some really good people who give their kids everything and everybody in the family is in therapy. One wife/mother has a full time job and started a small business! Or a guy has an executive position at a financial institution, has small children and the wife works full time not at a career thing but just some job that gives her money for xtras.
Couples today maybe need a plan. I know ladies who worked only till they bought furniture for their house or something and then stayed home. But they must have communicated with their husbands on goals and worked on stuff as a team?
Something I've noticed is people used to plant a garden even if they lived in town. They don't do that any more and I fear this complete dependency on mass production. Look at the latest news about the beef industry and you'll see why. But the depression era folks
parents knew that every little bit helps but failed to pass it on to their kids. I think also people who were children during the depression were just so tired of making do that they wholeheartedly embraced the new gadgets and quick meals and air conditioning etcetera. Now all that stuff is ingrained in society. It's good for commerce, maybe, but at the expense of people knowing how to really survive.
There's my 0.02 cents!
