Name: Famous Actor Regrets How He Raised His Baby Boomer Kids
Uploaded: 2020-04-15T16:42:35.000Z
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I think that I and I assume millions of others of my generation

Past simple

wanted some of the things that we did for our children

Was explained by the fact that we were products of

what is called the depression. Sadly, they say

many young people today don't even know what that term means.

Statistically almost everybody was poor for about 10 years.

Starting with the stock market crush and got worse after that.

And when you're really poor for a long time

I ran away from home. I was 16 at the time.

I bummed around the country for a few weeks.

I had seven dollars, they lasted exactly seven days.

and pretty quickly that converts into no food.

If you knew where there was a soup kitchen,

I didn't know about that, I was on the road

I didn't know where I was much less where other things were.

I would beg. Very quickly, you turn into a beggar.

You might think you would never do that, but you're wrong.

All you have to do is get hungry enough and you

It's the conventional dialogue that you saw on movies.

Hey Mark can you spare a dime or you know,

you got a quarter you're not using? I could use it.

And by large, you get ignored or you get contempt.

The only people who ever treated me cool,

the only people who ever treated me kindly

One guy I remembered opened his own pockets

showed me they were empty and he shrugged.

I like that we had a nice moment together

because he was saying, I'm no better off than you are.

Another man said, wait Sinor and he went into a little

hovel railey and came out with a tortilla full of beans.

My fellow Anglos by a large treated me coldly and rudely.

You will do that too and you'll thank the universe for the garbage.

Boy what a thrill, here I found a can with some beans in it.

and then I ate the nine or ten beans I found there.

I was eating garbage and thrilled to do it.

So, that's very different from the life that we know

and since some of us had been through that,

that our children never went through that.

So, we tried to build up the little bank accounts and

There are many sweet beautiful aspects of that.

The best scene of all really is family life.

Why our society insist on making heroes men or women

out of people who can't stay married and have had 19 women.

God is that a stupid reversion of values.

But the American home began to fall apart I think seriously

partly because of effects of world war two in the 1950's.

That's when the divorce explosion as it's called began.

As to what I wanted for my kids there was on one side

enough food, and roof over their head so that you know,

be able to go to school, and have a bike and all those simple things.

I would not grade myself terribly high as a father might.

to say complimentary things about me as a father,

Our culture and society is very good at training people.

We train them to pull teeth, to repair automobiles,

and that you're just thrown into the water, hope you can swim.

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Famous Actor Regrets How He Raised His Baby Boomer Kids

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