Counterfactual aper on The Age of Aquarius

ife but how nice was it to have an example to attempt to achieve. A good example, that is.
             We now have television shows like The Simpson's and Caillou. The Simpson's has become the longest running series in history and that is sad because it depicts children who curse and have absolutely no respect for their parents or authority. Caillou is a new cartoon with a little four-year-old boy who whines all the time and about everything. He never obeys his mother and she does nothing to enforce her rules. What happened to the respect children had for their parents? And what happened to these parents punishing bad behavior and always holding the upper hand on their children? I believe it is a little thing called liberalism. Liberalism can also be referred to as freethinking or open-mindedness. Anyone who knows anything about the late sixties and early seventies knows that liberalism was definitely a hippie's code of living.
             Liberalism did away with discipline and structure. If the "Woodstock Era" had not been, how would family dynamics be different today? First of all, families themselves would still be in tact. Divorce would not be an option for couples who just cannot seem to get along. The vows they took on their wedding day "till death do us part" would mean something to them and they would devote their lives to taking their vows seriously and making their marriage work. Women would not leave their husbands for richer men. Men would not trade their wives in for younger women. Couples might still argue over finances and little things couples dispute about, but these petty little disagreements would not make the couple feel like divorce is their only way out. All of these issues are issues that couples have dealt with since the beginning of time. If the late sixties and early seventies had not been as radical as they were, maybe the high divorce rate we have today would be considerably...

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