Families
... In her essay Stephanie Coontz states that people don’t really long for internal structure of 1950s’ families, but they long for increasing wages and economic growth. ... Children also tended to live in two-parent, heterosexual families. ... There were no single parent families. ... Stepparent families were extreme opposites of nuclear families. ... Nuclear families of 1950s were supposed to be harmonious and perfect; thus, everything else was concealed. ... However, one day he realizes that his family is not as complete as the “perfect families” of 1950s that he sees on TV. He sees that the families on TV do many things differently. ... He continues to admire the nuclear families, and he tries to convince his family members to imitate the “perfect families”. ... He even goes out to earn some money, so he could be as rich as the families on TV. ... He sees that the families on TV are not real, and that they don’t represent the complexity of his family.