In the 19th century it was the Father who was known to be the one who worked, or the breadwinner for the family. However, after World War II, we began to see a change in this situation when the women's rights movement took place and women began to be paid more for working and now entered the workplace regularly. This also happened due to the great economic growth that was occurring at that time. So, as things changed economically, the family also progressed. However, not all was positive progress as during this period we also began to see an increase in divorces and an increase in the number of women becoming pregnant without being married. These were huge shifts and shifts in family dynamics as the family was under the pressure of an ever-changing economy and culture. With both parents entering the workforce, children are given little supervision. This was totally different from the Leave it to Beaver family, the Cleavers family where only the father went to work and the mother had time to take care of the children. The fact that both parents work significantly reduces the time dedicated to the family or the time that in the past was spent between parents and children. This left an open door for society to have a greater impact on children than they would have received at home through the education and example of their parents. Because of their thinking of progressing with the world around them and the way the world was progressing in thinking, it left an open door for their families to be negatively affected by
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