Summarizing Stephanie Coontz
...o grow up” the treatment of women was viewed rather harsh. Many also agreed that they wouldn’t choose to live with “most of the fathers in the neighborhood.” Coontz agrees that for the economic and social reasons, the 1950s was pleasing to many people. The low divorce rates, federal economic expansion programs, corporate tax programs, and the high number of children living with both parents, accounts for the misunderstanding of the 1950s as well off. The author points out that even though there were many positive factors which in fact made the 1950s one of the best it also was plagued with racial and sexual discrimination, repression and abuse. She states that politicians and commentators are deceptively arguing the 1950s as the “golden age of American families.” She concluded that economic trends in the 1970s pushed a conflict between the social “expectations” that the 1950s families represented with that of their children. Coontz believes that this was the reason behind the mounting social problems and family rearrangements that took place in that time period. points out that even though there were many...