re: #64 ralphieboy

Hard to engage in decent parenting when both parents (if both are there) are holding down multiple jobs just to make ends meet…

Bullseye. Since the first postwar generation, and its model of a hardworking breadwinner keeping a couple kids in decent food and simple clothes, we have set kids up for the greatest rip-off imaginable. It was done by the family-friendly marketeers of the right with the unthinking help of the “Work Will Set You Free” left.
What we get is the 70-hour family workweek and a bunch of feral kids.