But it's a choice, just like your choice to drink cokes, not exercise, get fat, and die from it. Well, the conversation didn't go far from there. Because they don't get it. It wasn't anybody else's business. Most folks got a few bad habits.
Today spanking is nearly child abuse.
Back then divorce was hard to get and considered a disgrace. Today it's perfectly okay to walk out the door on your wife and kids, or husband and kids for that matter. No big deal. These days we laugh at anybody who suggests there is right and wrong and not just a big gray area. And when we went to war, our boys out-shot everybody else.