[JMintzer]

Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby

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.