the “good old days”

In the “good old days” men worked 72-hour weeks, life expectancy was 35 years (colonial America), serial marriages were the norm (the average marriage lasted 12 years in the 1880’s because one-third of women died in childbirth), 50 percent of children never reached the age of two, millions of people died from pneumonia, diphtheria and polio. How quickly we forget what the “good old days” were like.