Some couples do have to work and get over time to make ends meet. Hard times are a reality for many. Usually from what I have seen these hard working parents actually have great kids. Probably because the responsibilities layed on the kids to help ma and pa keep things going.

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. Edgar Allan Poe