re: I want to live in Mayberry

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The only unrealistic thing about Mayberry's depiction of that era was that nobody in Mayberry is married except the town drunk. Back in the day everyone was married. That's why kids were raised better.

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Wait. Howard was ghey? Floyd the Barber had a wife, no?

Andy and that bitchy Helen got married in the non black n white season, no?

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Back in the day everyone was married. That's why kids were raised better.

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The focus of the family, the part that had to be working right before anything else could work, was the father/mother relationship. If the parents were committed to each other, working together towards a common goal, disciplining their children in a fair evenhanded manner and faithful to their God, everything else fell into place.
The father/mother dynamic was the main focus of the family.
Over the years, the focus of the family shifted to the children and making sure junior was happy. With the father/mother no longer given priority, the family unit began to break down.