Title: American History: Life in the US After World War Two
Headings: American History: Life in the US After World War Two
American History: Life in the US After World War Two
Content: Parents were hopeful about the future. There were lots of jobs. And people everywhere felt the need for a family and security after the long, difficult years of the war. So the birth rate increased suddenly. The number of children between the ages of five and fourteen increased by more than ten million between nineteen fifty and nineteen sixty. VOICE TWO: Many of the new parents moved to homes in the new suburbs. The word suburb comes from the word urban, or having to do with cities. A suburb was sub, or something less than, a city. It usually was created on an empty piece of land just outside a city.