The Death Of The Family - 1418 Words

Death of the Family America has made great progress on the world stage with her technology. The inventions of the computer, cell phones, and internet have become a crucial part of life for many around the world. With all the technology, America, has been unable to stop the murder of her families. Hundreds of families each day are being murdered by the very technology that was invented to make life better. Not all the murders have been carried out directly by the technology itself. Some families have committed suicide in their attempt to acquire all the necessary things to live by today’s standards. Facebook and Apps have become the chosen partners, and human contact for the people of today. Mothers are no longer the primary care giver to†¦show more content†¦We think of shows from the 1950’s, like Leave it to Beaver, as the outline that a family structure should have. Dad worked, Mom stayed at home, and the home had school aged children. Diane Crisbell, in her article Myths of the 1950’s, found that 79% of US homes had this structure in the 50’s. During this time only 25% of married women worked outside the home. Non Traditional families, or those that had only one parent, made up only 11% of the families. Crisbell also noted that girls were less likely to have children out of wedlock and that there was less crime during the 1950’s. In 2007 Time International did a study. In this study they found that in the 1950’s 79% of newly wed couples would reach their 15th wedding anniversary. In the 1950’s the cost of living was lower than it is today. The 6th edition of the Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia has the minimum wage listed at 75 cents an hour for 1950 until 1956 when it was raised to 1 dollar an hour. Minimum wage is set by the government, and determined by the lowest a person can make in order to maintain a life style just above the minimum needed to survive. The United States Government had met and determined that the lowest amount a person could make in order to survive was only 1 dollar an hour. This would mean that the 1 dollar an hour would be sufficient to pay for a place to live, food on the table, along with heat and electric in the 1950’s. With the cost of goods cheaper in the 1950’s this enabled the family