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The difference today is, the gubberment pays for and encourages them to have more, women were more careful back in the day, because if family didn't take care of them, no one else would. As a result, there were a lot less teen pregnancy's because women were held responsible for their actions. Not so much today, the more you have, the more money/food stamps you get. Not to mention there was no birth control pill. I think I liked it better when men/women were expected to be responsible and not pump out unwanted children for money.
Love of country and God and our religious freedom. Seems we are going in the other direction to our detriment. I miss "Father Knows Best" all the men on TV comedies now are goofballs. Sad.
WASHINGTON, DC (CNSNews.com) - On Thanksgiving week in 1954, NBC aired a holiday-themed "Father Knows Best" that ended with the family praying before their meal, including thanking God "for the privilege of living as free men in a country which respects our freedom and our personal rights to worship and think and speak as we choose."
The Nov. 21, 1954 show featured the Anderson family: Jim and Margaret and their three children, Betty, Bud and Kathy.
In the program, the family decided to forgo a Thanksgiving meal because of scheduling conflicts. But in the end, the parents and children decide that sitting down to a Thanksgiving meal together is the best way to celebrate.
But you KNOW that it was FALSE!!!!!! It was the McCarthy era after all. They probably said all of those things just to keep from being blacklisted. It was absolutely not true that they could speak their minds or truth or espouse different beliefs.
to do so would mean loss of livelihood, incarceration or even death in the case of the Rosenbergs.
The point is, there was wide spread spousal abuse and to a large extent it was the way of life back then. Wives were subject to a lot back and these "the 1950's were the best of times" forget that for some "they were the worst of times". Blacks, minorities, gays, most women didn't fare so well.
In the early 1960's, I was maybe 10, I was beaten by my drunken father one nite and it felt like he had broken my jaw. I left the house and walked 12 miles to the nearest hospital. I explained what happen and they examined me and treated me while others called the police and my parents. The police talked with me, then my dad and then me again. Then the police did something strange, they sent my dad into the room alone so he could demand that I change my story. I had to say it was an accident and that I had been hit with a ball playing catch. My dad only has a thumb and half a finger on his throwing hand and has never played catch with anyone. After he pressured me the hospital staff and the police returned to the room and my day told his lie and I agreed with him. That immediately became the official story and the police left. I wonder how many wives faced the same sort of treatment from officials when they dealt with their own personal hell.
What happened to you was not the norm for most, most had a pretty good child hood and most women had a decent marrage.
"Father Knows Best" was a TV COMEDY! People watched because it made them laugh, it had good story lines with some sort of moral attached and it made them feel warm and fuzzy inside. People LIKE to fantasize so it's not surprising that enjoyed watching a fantasy family life. If the show wasn't popular with audiences, it wouldn't have lasted as long as it did.
Think of the Cosby show in the 1980s. Do you think that was a realistic depiction of typical family life for black Americans in that era?
People STILL like to watch fantasies on TV or do you really believe there are aliens, vampires or humans with super powers living amongst us?
Were you unable to comprehend that teen pregnancies were higher back then?
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Maybe because the population exploded after the war and war baby's became teenagers in the 50's and 60's, it makes sense that, more teens, more teen pregnancy's.
It is an establish FACT that the was nearly three time the amount of KNOWN teen pregnancies in the 1950's, something like 96 per 1000 teens in 1950 vs 34 per 1000 in 2007 I think.
58 years prior to 1954 was 1896. Things had changed a lot over that timespan, too. And I have no doubt that there were lots of cranky old crabs in 1954 lamenting the passage of the "good old days" before electricity, TV, radio, airplanes, and all the other new-fangled stuff that was leading then-contemporary society straight to hell.
But in both 1896 and 1954, families usually stayed together. There was no sky-high divorce rate. The country wasn't in mega-debt. There was no drug epidemic. No AIDS.
Hey I can watch football, listen to a baseball game on the radio and yell at my kids at the same time. On top of that tell the wife to cook dinner. That is multi tasking. I'd like to see a woman do that.
Well aren't you the tremendously macho left-over from the time warp. There aren't many of you left, you know. You fellas ought to start a club. You can all meet up before you die out. The meetings could consist of all three of you puffing out your chests and trying very hard impress each other. Lots of stories about the little woman and how you keep her in her place, yes-sir-ee. She knows not to mess with you cause your word is law, dad gum it.
I'd think you'd all have lots stories about how you boss your wives around and brag about being married to the one of the few women left in America who doesn't have the sense to tell you to get up off your sorry *** and get your own **** dinner.
And every person I know who grew up in the 50's and 60's talks about reality, and it wasn't what you saw on TV.
BTW, I'm not sorry for how I grew up. I grew up a lot more stable and in a lot better way then a lot of folks. I have a close knit family, but it isn't "Father knows best"
Life imitates art.
It may have not been a 100% accurate snapshot in detail of your household.. or others...
But I am sure they subconsciously aimed to be like the Cosby's or Brady Bunch.
Just my guess.
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