WE DID. My generation tried to make sure our "kids" didn't do with out.Growing up I was happy with a bat and baseball mitt.Sure I had a bike, almost every kid did.But now 100$ sneakers, 4 or 5 hundred dollar phones, and high school parking lots jammed with student cars. I knew how to say NO to my kids. If one of them[ they seldom did] threw a tantrum for something, they got palm across their butt even in public. They didn't have to make fashion statements in primary school because uniforms were required, and proper dress followed into high school. The thought of not going to college didn't need to be mentioned, and scholarships helped defray major costs, they worked for those scholarships. Things are harder now, there isn't that much part time work for younger workers now, sports and recreation has to be structured by adults.My america disappeared with the jobs that went over seas, and the loss of "made in america".There will NEVER be full employment again, and the single wage earner is as extinct as the passenger pigeon.