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Originally Posted by manaboutown
Most of the high school students taking the SAT in 1965 were 17 years old plus or minus a year and so were born around 1948. Most of their parents reached adulthood prior to or during WWII and were therefore born between 1910 and 1930. 1965 was the peak SAT score year. Sat scores rose during the 1950s and early 1960s. Thus parents of children raised during the 1950s and early to mid 1960s did an incredible job or raising their children as did society as a whole. The 1950s were wonderful years in which to grow up for many reasons.
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Only if your parents were fortunate enough to have been born white, had both parents married to each other and living at home with each other, and of /enough/ means that your mother could stay home and not have to work for a living.
If you were black, or your mother had to work for a living, or was a single parent, then no - it wasn't "wonderful years" for many reasons.