good old days? As seniors live well used and loved? Was it for the seniors used to be better?
Did it the old people used to be better? No, says the British historian Pat Thane. The image of the "good old days" is a stereotype, at least not one for historical could read out data. Child mortality in earlier centuries, much higher than today - and the typical age of residence was the poor house. The desire that the children had to take care in old age a pious wish. In a television commercial of a Viennese insurance, let the naughty brats in which their parents depend evil. The joke is serious and is intended to remind
retirement. For, as the undertone, the times are changing: Today, one can not as it used to be sure that the descendants, which has grown to take care of you if you are gray and tattrig.
's would have been nice back then: We project the image of a too-happy intact family in the past. All live harmoniously under one roof, the children are their own retirement. Yet even a walk to the Castle Theater taught a lesson: King Lear is the deluded old man, who is relying on his daughters and leave. Shakespeare uses in his play of 1605 sharply to folk tales of his time, showing how widely spread was the pious wish.
Many case files from the Middle Ages to the present day show conflicts between the generations. The old ones still alive bequeath to their children and are eligible for house and home for their retirement free room and board - and not infrequently have to go to court to enforce their rights. In the late 18th
Century clung to the gates of Brandenburg cities even large wooden clubs, with the inscription: "Whoever makes the bread of his children dependent and is in distress, will be killed with this club In this context, the love the old to see the result. of poor nutrition were quickly impotent, offensive and wasting away. For love by making no room was more.
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