Yes, if that's the best a family can do. We were grateful for what we had when we were in that position. Unless we are saying that the children who were raised

Yes, if that's the best a family can do. We were grateful for what we had when we were in that position. Unless we are saying that the children who were raised in such living conditions in the past were damaged in some way by the experience? Or that human physiology has changed in some way over this timescale?