the Christian calendarsodometer. Crime still besieges society, albeit of a different type, and the nuclear familyprevalence decreased. In the past decade Americans endured terrorist attacks andcountless school shootings. I one opens the newspaper, the tragedies spill forth. However,in light of the problems of the 1950s the charge flickers, an apocalypse not. The 1950s and the 1990s are utterly and completely different. The 1950s was a post-wartime, where utterly irreproducible affects kept mom at home. The 1990s is a technologyladen information society, where media pries into corners and brings problems into greaterlight including violence, rape, birth control, and AIDS. The amount of nuclear families decreased (Two 1), yet the cause for the dissolve of thefamily outweighs the difficulties, the equalization of women in the work force. No longerdo mothers rely on the males income, they can survive on their own. Their ties of helpflutter free and the American women becomes free since the American ideals put forth inthe constitution. These new freedoms allow women to break free of confining and badmarriages and venture into traditionally male roles. Crime obviously is a challenge to modern politicians. The problem states itself clearly fromthe bold type adorning the front lines of newspapers nationwide. Our difficulties are now.Yet when reviewing the past, the media is not constantly reminding us of it. The repetitionof material does stick in our head, like the indelible pop song chasing around in our heads.The violence and abuse still existed, however in the 1950s mass media had not expandedto its current size. Modern statistics of rape, child abuse and other domestic problems arehigher in part because of the lack of education on these societal ills. Today more cases arereported to authorities, thanks to education from this evil media. Yes, these horribleproblems were present, just hidden from the memories of modern naysayers. Demographic...
