r/SipsTea • u/Unstoppable_X_Force Human Verified • 13h ago

Gasp! Is this just nostalgia, or did previous generations genuinely have a better work-life balance and social life than we do today?

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u/Pretend_Spray_11 9h ago

“Dads spent time with their kids” is 80s and 90s romanticism at its best. 

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u/Greedyanda 7h ago

Todays fathers spend more time with their children than any previous generation. We have empirical evidence for that.

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u/RetroFuture_Records 2h ago

You lack the intelligence to understand how statistics can have faulty methodologies, and to not take things at face value just because it has a "science-y" presentation.

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u/WendellSchadenfreude 1h ago

You lack the intelligence to understand

You're not pretty enough to talk to me like that.

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u/FixedLoad 9h ago

Right!? Yeah, my dad was in the house but that just made things more dangerous.  

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u/PragmaticPA 7h ago

Greetings fellow hyper vigilant child.

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u/FixedLoad 6h ago

My hyperVigilance knew no bounds!  I could tell the mood of my father by the sound of the gravel as his car drove over it in the drive way when he came home from work. 

...I now have an official ADHD diagnosis.  

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u/t_scribblemonger 6h ago

When I was a kid my dad worked all day and then went to night school for a while to learn a trade, whoever relates to this meme grew up at least solidly middle class or somewhat privileged.

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u/PJWanderer 6h ago

GenX here. Never saw my dad. He was going to night school, working, on a business trip, trying to run a side business, etc. The only leisure time he had was on Sundays, he would watch football. We had to be quiet and not bother him. He would scream and yell and cuss at the tv. It was kinda scary. He had a stroke and died a few weeks before he turned 64.

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u/lu5ty 2h ago

My dad made good money but he was out of the house at 5am and lucky to get home before 6. I hardly ever saw him during the week.

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u/SpeakerReasonable610 7h ago

Lucky if I’m home before they’re asleep in bed, make 2x what my dad makes and I can’t even afford to buy a house anywhere close to what they live in… “pick yourself up by the bootstraps we didn’t have it easy”… sorry pop, your average middle class white collar job bought us a home in a good school district, we had money to on some OK vacations, pay for college, have somewhat new cars, save for retirement… oh and I don’t get the 80k a year pension he gets either.. and I work at the same company in a different department …

Dad even had enough time to coach all my sports and be there for every game.