The values that families held in 1950 were much different from traditional values of today. Spending quality time with one another was the most important aspect of 1950’s life. Dinner was usually e

One of the few positive changes in the past five decades is the equal rights and opportunities for women and African Americans. In 1950, around 18.4 million American women were employed, as opposed to 66 million in 2001. Women in this age makeup almost half of the work force and only about one-fourth in 1950. Since the rise of feminism in the 1970,’s women have become more outspoken and in turn have earned more respect.

Almost all families in the 1950’s were patriarchs, defined as fathers ruling the family. Some women now are heads of the family and men may take the back seat. With nearly equal incomes and respect, the parenting life is equal between both sexes.

Since 1950 alone, crime rates have increased eleven times, and a thing like violence in schools, unimaginable five decades ago, is present everywhere. Hate crimes have been spreading like a disease since the 1950’s. Although derogatory acts against any one “different”, homosexual’s for example, were present in 1950, it was unfathomable that people would actually purposely try and succeed in killing them in the 21st century.

In the 1950’s the child usually stayed at home until they started first grade. Since most mothers were not yet in the workforce, they raised the child. Without many shows on television, children used their imagination to create games to entertain themselves. Children could be found spinn

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