The 1950s were seen as one of the most glorious periods in Americas history when linked with family values and the appearance of a family model. This era was the birth of the Nuclear family, behind closed doors american citizens were living their lives intertwined with an almost set of standards.
The male breadwinner and head of the household would regulate how life was to dictate, wives were kept undet thumb, often feeling as if they were accesories and this would leave them feeling a desire to flee, to escape. After all at the time soceity was encroaching upon every household and was ensuring that the finaicail and educational pathways women were once able to follow were being closed upon.
If a family tried to break from the scrutinised eyes of the government or media and live an individual existnet they would be looked at like freaks of nature, there increasing crave for something different would twist and disfigure the worlds perception of them.
Women were told to become wives and mothers, to neglect all previous family ties, forget their parents and concentrate energy upon anchoring this new family, forget a career or any hope of leading any sort of personal existence all attention would have to be focused on her husband and children.
A dead end, a shell of a person, this was the dark side of the 1950s era which ripped through the United states of america and affected every home.
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