HIST 2800 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Nuclear Family, 6 Years, Residential Segregation In The United States
17 May 2017
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The way we never were: america families in the cold war era. Main point: for both men and women, a successful family life was a major personal goal. In its idealized form, during this period, the home and family life was meant to offer companionate marriage, material comfort, well-adjusted children, and wives and husbands who performed well in their clearly defined roles. This was a lot to ask of the nuclear family; family realities rarely matched these expectations: america coming out of wwii was the only country that was able to do relatively well after. Dominates in social politics and policies: idea of nuclear family emerges and entrenched throughout very strongly. Wwii changed people"s lives dramatically and society. Families were mobilized for war; rationing and collecting scrap metal, while offering emotional comfort to family members fighting overseas was seen as a family"s patriotic duty. Picking up the jobs men left behind.
