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What Did A Typical Minority Family Resemble In The 1950's?

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Question: Why was there such a reluctance to depict dysfunction in American family life during the fir first 30 years of television? The focus was almost always on a Utopian version of society.

Question: Douglas argues the sustained bachelorhood was equated with latent homosexuality. However, he does not reference any research. What evidence exists to support this contention?

Question: What accounted for the drastic increase in divorce rates from 1870 to 1920? Can this be equated with the Industrial Revolution?

Question: What did a typical minority family resemble in the 1950’s? There is tremendous focus in current times on absentee fatherhood, drug use, and violence. Douglas argues this is the result of economic, governmental, and societal

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