g to work to support the boys off at war. Pictures like the one of Marilyn Monroe in the factory, portrayed this new lifestyle as somewhat glamorous. The role of the female changed to a now working mom, outside of the home. The importance of the home shifted for the time, and women were “allowed” to leave the home.After the war was over, and the men began to once again fill the work field, the media immediately began stating how women should be back at home. The media would state that women, who spend too much time away from their home, were endangering their families and neglecting their husbands and their children. An article in Life magazine stated “They should use their minds in every conceivable way…so long as their primary focus of interest and activity is the home.” Media pictures showed children running rampant and hurting themselves and blamed it on the mothers who are never home, as seen in the movie,”Rosie the Riveter”. A lot of the women though, decided that they enjoyed working and although for a short time after the war was over, the women went back to the roles they were in prior to the war, the women soon began to play a different part. Such as the women’s roles began to change, so did the males role as the father. In the 1950’s, the baby boom, formed the demographic foundation for the quickening attention to the male family role. These baby boom families, popularly associated with tradition, were harbingers of transitional family patterns. (Journal of Family History) Television became more predominate as a means of communication after the war, and television commercials and shows, began infiltrating themselves into the American home. Brining with it, the visual norm of what life should be like. Programs in the 50’s after the war, showed the rise of fatherhood as we know it today, and the shift in the woman’s role in the house, to outside in the work force...
