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  I would say things started going to pot when it became the norm for both parents to go out to work, leaving their school age kids without supervision after school, the time when their urge to let off steam is strongest. This of course coincided with people starting to 'need' expensive foreign holidays and colour tellies and the only way to keep up with the Joneses was for both parents to have an income.
  
  I think unemployment is a red herring, it's always been a small minority out of work (local situations excepted, such as the Kent coalfields post-closure) and in 'those days' unemployment was a stigma whereas nowadays you meet people who are actually better off on benefits than working.

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