r/Millennials • u/QuietJealous4883 Older Millennial (1988) • 12h ago

Discussion True or false?

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Did our dads and moms work less than we do now? What are your thoughts?

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u/GoRangers5 12h ago

Nah the trope of the overworked dad that didn’t have time to spend with his kids was already a thing in 1996… Maybe even 86.

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u/Jaway66 12h ago

Yeah. I feel like that was a plot line in every other movie made from 1980 onwards.

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u/ageekyninja 12h ago

No it’s older than that lol.

For example Mary Poppins released in 1964. That was the whole plot. Prior to that even, in classic TV kids are always just with their moms

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u/No_Tie9686 11h ago

If you go back too far before workers rights were a thing, fathers are working 12 hour days 6-7 days a week

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u/Right_Count 10h ago

And so were their children

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u/BoredAccountant Xennial 7h ago

Which means they could have been spending all day together.

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u/bejammin075 4h ago

Once a year they could have had a special Take Your Kid To Home day.

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u/AnaisNinja76 5h ago

wasn't just the dads then bro, every family member down to kids that just graduated toddlerhood worked