People's problems in the 1950s were much different than now

In the 1950s almost any man could get a job and support 5 to 7 people and buy a house by age 16 or 17 just by becoming a carpenter or a garbage man then. So, going to college wasn't really necessary for a good life in suburbia, owning a home and having up to 10 children even though most people who did have this many kids then were usually Catholic or Doctors that I knew of. So, the amount of children people had slowly diminished over the years until now.

When I go back to 1580 in Switzerland through my father's line I see that most people who lived to be 20 had about 5 to 10 kids all the way from 1580 in Switzerland through coming to the U.S. in the 1720s to about the time of the Civil War when families started to get a little smaller because more of your kids died earlier and less later as knowledge and medicine became better and better over time.

My Great Grandfather was a Captain in the Northern Army in the Civil War from Kansas and after the war he was a plastering contractor and then started a drug store from herbs bought from Indians in a local Indian Reservation that they gathered for him. So, he ran this drug store from the 1870s until 1925 when he retired and sold it I believe and then lived until the beginning of World war II. His wife, my Great Grandmother lived until the early 1950s when she was I think either 102 or 105 years of age and he lived a long time too because he was born in he 1840s I believe.

The types of problems people had that I observed in the 1950s were smoking and drinking a lot which caused a lot of people to die young. Also, they didn't understand diet so people who could afford it had steak and potatoes every night and this killed a lot of men especially by ages 40 to 50 then, especially men who worked hard in construction especially the contractors in their 40s to 60s.

It wasn't until the 1960s that people started jogging more starting in college and the upper classes and exercising more and eating better food. So, this started in the upper classes this dietary and change and it started also among all those who went to college and studied what kept people alive longer. So, the 1960s began people eating better, stopping smoking cigarettes so much, but also started in college people smoking marijuana and doing various recreational drugs which also killed and maimed many people throughout America and the world.

So, it wasn't until the 1980s when AIDS started killing everyone that you saw the biggest change and people got really paranoid about all sex and drugs and became more prudish like the 1950s again. To some degree it is still like that today among people who haven't died of AIDS so far.

So, most people who have AIDS and are spreading it in the U.S. don't know they have it right now.

So, among less educated people there is an incredibly amount of ignorance in the U.S. in some areas right now compared to the 1960s and 1970s and 1980s when more people knew about the dangers than do now.

However, hopefully through social media people will educate each other with the facts because it helps if you are alive and not dead.