Admission: I wish we could go back to the 1950s

After all of this housing market crashing, financial ruin and record jobless rates I'm ready to return to a simpler time. In my earlier years I enjoyed being the breadwinner. I felt a sense of pride at being able to out-earn my husband, provide health insurance for my family and pay for my own purchases from my own bank account. But over the last few years I've come to resent being the breadwinner. It also meant that if my husband didn't like his job he could quit because we could always rely on my salary to keep us afloat. Last year when the economy started taking a nose dive I got into trouble with the mortgage. Eventually I lost the house and now rent a far too expensive house to allow me to keep my children in the same schools they've always attended. My salary took a cut by $15K a year, and everything else suffered along with it. I began to get very stressed and started getting sick with all of the worry about how I would provide for my family. After struggling with this for the last four years I have finally realized that I now resent having to worry about how "I" am going to provide for my family.
Back in the 1950s women suffered in the equality department. And I'm sure I am underestimating exactly how frustrating that truly was. I know my ideas of the '50s stem from old movies and tv shows. And I know that wishinhg to go back to an idealized time like that is purely dreaming, as we never will be able to.
But a girl can dream, right?
It seems to me we have far too many people in the world. Far too many cars, far too much pollution and disease. The population was certainly smaller in the '50s, and the attitudes were less about how much each person deserves. Today the world seems constantly focused on entitlement. Our kids are worse than ever. My teenage daughters believe they deserve the latest and most expensive phones. They expect cars for their 16th birthday. I must say, they are going to be sorely disappointed.
In the '50s teenagers were rebelling as well. Listening to the new rock music, boys slicking their hair back, girls wearing poodle skirts. But they were safer, and more respectiful.
In the 1950s women stayed at home. They were confident their husbands could make enough money to provide for the family. The husband got a good paying job, stayed there until retirement, collected his pension and the family lived in comfort. Sometimes if a woman wanted to work outside the home she could become a secretary or even a teacher. I secretly long for that lifestyle. I want to stay home with my children, tend the house, have girlfriends I get together and chat or workout with. I want neighborhood potlucks or barbecues.
I want my husband to work a stable job until he retires with a decent pension payout, and to drive a decent car and for our children to enjoy decent clothing.
Instead, I pay way too much for my house and utilities and my kids have ratty clothes and our car is a junker. We are down to a third of the income we used to have just 5 years ago. A THIRD!
Technology and all of these advancements have just made everything and everyone isolated and non-neighborly. People don't write letters, or get together with their neighbors nearly as much as they did back then. In my area, I don't even know who my neighbors are!
And after four months of being unemployed my husband still can't find a job anywhere. I would like to increase my salary (which just took an $8K a year hit starting last month), but no one around my area is hiring. What few places are hiring aren't paying more than $30K a year.
I just wish we could go back to a simpler way of living. I wish we could return to the 1950s way of living when men had jobs and supported their families, and women took care of raising the children.