“I don’t think there were mass shootings like this back in the 1950s. It seems like it’s once a month now.”
More people came from stable intact homes where dad worked and mom was home when the kids got home. And mom and dad were female and male, respectively.
I have my Little League roster guide from 1959. There were sixteen 15-player teams in the Majors and Minors, totaling 240 players, from roughly 150 families. In the back, every family is listed, and only one shows a single-parent family.