Throughout the 1950s, there was an omnipresent nuclear threat hanging overhead. Bomb shelters were built, and kids were forced to practice “duck-and-cover” drills in the case of nuclear fallout.
(Although it is the ultimate hallmark of 1950s patriarchy that the kids are expected to know their father's first name, and ...
WEDNESDAY, March 26, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- Black babies and children are more than twice as likely to die as white kids, ...
After World War Two finished in 1945 life got better for children in Britain during the 1950s. The destruction of the war and evacuation had shown people how poor many children were. It was agreed ...
American society in the 1950s was geared toward the family. Marriage and children were part of the national agenda. And the Cold War was in part a culture war, with the American family at the ...