For many contemporary Americans, the decade of the 1950s was an age of Leave it to Beaver when families' worst problems were the children who chewed gum in class. How accurate are these assumptions?
What will be an ideal response?
ANSWER: Students will have a difficult time defending these assumptions. The text points to challenges
to conventional sexual morality, from Playboy to organizations like the Mattachine Society and the Daughters of Bilitis. Parents worried about a great deal more than illicit gum chewing. They worried about juvenile delinquency and illicit sex. The growth of rock 'n' roll, far from being viewed as a harmless escapade by 1950s authorities, was seen as a serious social threat. With one-quarter of middle-class women working for wages, clearly not every family had a June Cleaver waiting to welcome the children home from school.
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