Sense Sonnet - Chiller

Century Children

A hundred years that came and went,
Living the American dream.
Middle class parents ever spent
Time searching for that hidden scheme
On how to raise the kids just right
To assure them a better life,
So when the kids grew up, they might
Make a good husband or good wife,
And then raise children of their own,
To realize what sacrifice
Their parents surely must have known,
And so now treat them very nice.

Good parenting is like roulette.
There's no such thing as a sure bet.