>>309362>One provider, a large house, 2 to 3 kids, firmly middle class with relatively few struggles. On paper, it sounds like the ideal life.The thing is that this just wasnt available for everyone. People often think that more or less the whole country lived like this, but in reality it was definitely not the majority.
My father was born in 1954 in rural northern germany and his family was dirt poor, despite both his parents being teachers (his dad full time, his mom half time). They didnt have a bathroom, the toilet was a little hut in the garden, there was one faucet in the entire house and they first got a car when he was a teenager, in the sixties. Things might have been different in the US, but in germany people also often romantize the past and act like the average person was well off compared to today, while they could easily just ask their grandparents what it was like.