It is often said that modern lifestyles caused children to get less attention as they did in the past eras. I totally agree that electronical revolution has influental role on the attention toddlers and kids getting nowadays compared to past.
On the one hand, in the modern world, parents are surrounded by electronical devices, work and etc things to fix the boredom, whenever an adult gets bored, they can resolve this issue with mobile phones, computer games. That aside, going to work will also affect the child because the care and the attention given to child cannot be replaced by anyone else except the parents of the child. The fact that work and electronics make parents more busy, it makes the child more forsaked and forgotten. Modern lifestyles include intensive working which is the first reason why people cant show attention to their children nowadays as much as they did before, because back then, not so improved industry did not require women to work nor require long time labours but now, women are required to work because of financial reasons as well as financial freedom and the support of the family.
On the second hand, modern lifestyles promise more flexibility and more stable life than it did before. Initially, stable income didnt exist past but nowadays, parents can ensure the safety of their financial stability with stable income. The second and last fact would be the static schedules which can leave the parents enough time in a daily basis for them to take care of their child but sincerely, in modern era, leaving the child with a specialist to take care of them would also be possible.
As a result, although both ideas might sound controversial, i believe that parents back then were able to spend more time than now with their children because of light work schedules.