Sorry Skylark, I was thinking more in terms of ‘families’ and not progress in other things.
There were many good radio shows way back and TV was safe for children to view.
Families took long trips by car to their vacation destinations - another time to be together and talk.
Yes, there are ups and downs with every generation but many good family things have been lost.
Well if your family experiences were good, I'm glad for you. Mine were happy as well. But others report excessively authoritarian or abusive experiences. (Just look at this thread for examples.) So I'm not sure things were always that much better in the past.