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Would you America to see a return to the traditional nuclear family of the 1950s?
I believe that the next president should study on why divorce rates are so high and encourage marriage and encourage couples to have children. I heard that couples who attend church more often have lower divorce rates because they're happier. I would love to see a return to the 1950s American family because our families has fallen apart with divorce, out of wed lock births, and drugs, and other.
The movie "Father of the Bride" made me think about the 1950s and it just seemed so beautiful, I like it, with the stay at home wife and the nice big home in the suburbs and being married.
I live thru the 50's as a child. That was a movie not really life. Life now is very easy compared to then in reality. The family then stuck together to survive. Women often had a choice to either go into poverty or stay married.
My father went to war when I was a baby and came home when I was three. Between then and the age of eight, I had lived in six cities in three states. That spring they started to build a new house. My nineth year we moved into the new house and I started school in a new district for the fifth time.. They lived in that house thirty years. before they built a new one and moved for the last time.
In some ways, yes. There were things that were important in the '50s that people no longer see as important. Morality, going to church, actually working on your marriage and not just divorcing because you don't want to deal with it (divorce was looked down on back then), etc.
On the other hand, there are things I like better now. Women have more career choices. They can remain single if they wish. It may not be easy (people sometimes talk and ask questions), but it's easier than it was in the '50s. Blacks and people of other races are treated better now. And, of course, technology is better.
No. Even though things looked so nice and perfect, it wasnt. As Texdav pointed out, a family stuck together to survive and women had very little choice in the matter. Unlike some people who look back to that time, I spent my childhood in that decade. Even as a kid I could see that all was not lollipops and roses.
Also I thni9k you have to remember that taht generation saw their grndfthers go to a world war and then their fathers It eliminated many dreams and thoise that returned wanted to live life more than we can appreciate. They were very tough ;loved and appreciated their freedom and were very determined to have their sons and daughters do better in life. What we think of as the american dream was their idea.I can remember that they want nothing ever agian to do with europe really. They thought that europe was to blame for the war as they never took Hitler serious enough. They believed in peace thru might.
I live thru the 50's as a child. That was a movie not really life. Life now is very easy compared to then in reality. The family then stuck together to survive. Women often had a choice to either go into poverty or stay married.
The same kind of exists today. Not! Women always get the house, 2/3's of the savings, and half the business...
I remember as a kid there were some moms who drained the dads so dry that they went from living in a mansion to renting a 500 square foot apartment in little Mexico just to get by. And that was in Illinois! I hear in Florida the divorce laws are even more in favor of giving the wife everything.
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