How Did Our Grandparents Manage?

Looking at this chart one can see how many have gotten into tough financial situations. Our grandparents raised healthy, well adjusted children in small homes. Today the family is more fractured than ever, but hey, they have a bigger house. We continue to strive toward bigger and better at the expense of our children, our credit and our sanity. We need to stop and think about what is really important, it isn't more, and it isn't a bigger house, that is for sure.