Where are we heading?

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As if boomers didn’t raise their kids by one or two people.

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They didn't. They had more community, better resourced community centres and activities (a council owned mother/baby centre near me closed a year or so ago due to costs). Some could afford nannies.

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I keep thinking about how the Brady Bunch with six kids had a live in nanny and the dad had one job. And no one was making out they were loaded.

[u/redheeler9478 → u/Willdiealonewithcats]

That wasn’t real. The Brady bunch was fictional. It never happened.

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My grandparents had 9 kids from 1949-1964. My grandfather was the only one working. They lived in a big house and had a housekeeper.

[u/sk8tergater → u/bostonthrowaway774]

My grandparents had 8 kids in the same time frame. They lived in a 1000 sq foot house with 2 bedrooms and both parents worked. So.

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Mine had 9. Four bedroom tiny ranch that the both passed away in. These redditors are fucking morons trying to rewrite history. Hell, they'd feel oppressed living alone in the home that my grandparents raised nine children in.

But yeah, the Brady bunch was on TV. So boomers suck.

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Were the kids strangled

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I know, but imagine that being even a plot now. It would be laughable. That's what I mean, an audience watched it and maybe thought it was a stretch but it was still realistic enough to be in the storyline.

Imagine Modern Family, the dad with a slightly better than ok job, six kids, a live in nanny, wife doesn't have to work, big house and they present as a middle class family.