Were the 1960s a great time to be alive?

It was a wonderful time to be young, with the country shaking off the shackles of wartime, and with a huge change in social attitudes and mores.
I guess the decades of youth are always the most fun, so long as you have the essentials of life.
Sadly the youngsters of today have a terrible struggle if they try to afford further education, and far too many of them lack sufficient food and clothing, live in poor housing and have little if any chance of a decent job.
We seem to be rapidly returning to the ‘hungry thirties’ - I hope we soon rotate through another sixties type era very soon!
Before anyone else says it, I know that all young people have giant TVs and expensive mobile phones - it’s been said before, but I have not observed it to be true, and in any case those items are no substitute for a decent and fulfilling life.

Sluttygran.

I grew up in the late forties and early fifties as a child of a family who were part of the, "Undeserving Poor".

Looking back at family history I can see why my mother and father were so bad at parenting; I just resolved, as a seven year old, not to be like them if I had children when I
I grew up.

Taking History O Level in 1961 I somehow thought that, "Reform",meant making things better; now I realise it just means changing things, often for the worse for ordinary people.

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