The virtues of righteous living, not giving in to sloth and worry, meditating on God rather than on this wicked world with its moral rot, these can make life a blessing and not a curse.
In contrast to the 50s and 60s, look at the chaos in young families with children when both parents must work to keep the government fat. I see it in my own family circle. With the insane schedules they keep on their 24 hr. treadmill, I’m surprised the children don’t have strokes before they get out of high school!
A couple of years ago, we took care of our teenage grandkids for a week while their parents went to Hawaii for a work and play time.
Our son told me when we got in the door, that our grandson had three travel baseball games the next day/Saturday. The first one was at 8 am and we had to be there for practice at 7 am. Fortunately, the ball park was only 30 miles away.
In the meantime my wife was with our DIL going over their schedule board a white board, with the 7 days a week across the top with time periods from 6 am to 9 pm on the side. School time was about the only unscheduled time. When I saw the white schedul board, I told my wife, we could have ran a good size Navy ship when I was in the Navy with that board.
During the day, my wife and I did household chores until the hell time after school.
Their after school schedules were incredible. They went to different schools and got out at different times and went to different after school events. One day was incredible. I dropped them and their friends off at school in the morning. That afternoon I picked up my grandson and a friend after school and drove a few miles in traffic to drop them off at a Math Olympics meeting. Later my wife picked up our grand daughter and a friend and brought them home for snacks, study and getting them to a dance practice.
Our grandson called, and I picked him up and his neighbor to bring them to their homes for a snack and to change into their baseball gear for a practice session. I drove them to the ball field while my wife drove a couple of miles in the opposite direction to drop off our grand daughter. Then she drove to the ball field to watch the practice.
After the practice our grandson wanted to go to the local pizza place for a sit down pizza. We told him that we could do that. My wife ordered take out pizzas and took he and his friend to pick up the pizzas. In the meantime I went to a grocery store for food for the next day. After shopping I picked up my grand daughter and her friend and brought them back to my son's home.
We ate pizza, sent their friends home (they lived in the same cul de sac), had our grand kids shower, study and back to bed before the next day began.