(12-11-2016, 03:48 PM)guohua Wrote: My husband said that most of those ads he remembered for women like his mother in the late 50's and 60's when they stayed home and kept the house and raised the kids and didn't work.
The husband was the worker and provided for the family, that was his responsibility and it was a norm that he died earlier than the wife.
Daytime tv had programming for the stay at home wife, that was the beginning of Soap-Opera's and Game Shows.
With the mothers staying home, the kids could keep no secrets in their rooms, the mothers cleaned the bedrooms and knew all of your secrets.
Yep... and it worked.
The television 'may' have had good intentions by using enticing daytime programmes combined
with advertising to entertain the housewives of the past, but it also damaged the family unit.
I also agree that mothers could monitor her children's behavior by cleaning their rooms, but to
throw out all of the 'rhythm' magazines from under the bed was just too much!!
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