Title: Parenting Methods in the 1950s | How To Adult
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Parenting Methods in the 1950s
Mothers as Care-Givers
Trustful Parenting Practices
Authoritarian Parenting
Discipline and Punishment

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Parenting Methods in the 1950s
Written by Erica Loop
18 April, 2017
Parenting isn't the same now as it was for your parents or grandparents. Long before the Internet brought the world to kids' fingertips and parents became known as "helicopters," raising a child was a more restrictive process that often included stereotypical roles. During the 1950s, parents were more trusting, yet less permissive with their children and women took on the primary care-giving activities
Mothers as Care-Givers
As of 2011, roughly one-third of fathers who have working wives engage in regular child care, according to the U.S. Census Bureau 3 ⭐
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United States Census Bureau: One-Third of Fathers with Working Wives Regularly Care for Their Children, Census Bureau Reports
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. In the 1950s, the trend towards dads as care-givers hadn't even begun to take shape. With only 34 percent of all women in the workforce, moms were the primary caregivers during the 50s. Daily care activities, discipline and communication with children was the woman's job. In contrast, the man was the "breadwinner." This left the domestic tasks to the wife-mother.