One of the problems is this touchy feely attitude in our culture. The idea that life is not supposed to contain any pain. Basically a generation of 40 and 50 year old children.
Yes. Little Pigs, comfortably ensconced in houses of straw and sticks, just waiting for something good to come on tv and blasé about the wolf prowling just outside.
The worldly South knows what it's like when he huffs and puffs and blows the house down!