Title: THE '50S: TRUE BENCHMARK OF FAMILY VALUES? - Orlando Sentinel
Headings: THE '50S: TRUE BENCHMARK OF FAMILY VALUES?
THE '50S: TRUE BENCHMARK OF FAMILY VALUES?
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Content: In the suburbs of a toun,' quod he." In the 1890s, Henry Cuyler Bunner published a collection of magazine essays called The Suburban Sage. They report on issues such as house hunting, landscaping and commuting. But there was something different about the postwar suburbs of the 1950s. A mass exodus of middle-class people from cities, fueled by federal politics, changed the concept and tone of suburban life. "Urban intellectuals began condemning the perceived conservatism, pettiness and 'tackiness' of the suburbs, establishing the lines of argument still evident today," writes Stilgoe. Today they remain home to the most solidly affluent and conservative Americans. All in all, the 1950s were unique in important ways. Marriages came early and children came often. But using the 1950s as a social standard ignores the rest of American history.