Family Life (1949)

Impossible drama proving that proper management of schedules, responsibilities, privileges, and finances leads to a happier home. Another winner from Coronet Instructional Films! Get a little organized and you too will be able to afford those major medical expenses and finally get your hair under control!

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• social
• guidence
• 1950
• family
• life
• parents
• children
• arguments
• budgets
• schedules
• finances
• Coronet

[melaniestevens]

This is so foreign to people today because they are actually showing each other respect. They are also good principles. I sense that with the economy being what it is right now we will be seeing a return to something similar.

[BettinaBalser]

Maybe to be a bit more modern in your comment, let's say that we would not have the problems we do if adults put the children and the family first, and stopped mistaking material goods and foolish purchases for happiness and "raising the kids right." So much focus on things that don't matter, and no focus on the things that DO.

[OldTimeBob]

Ahhh the 40's...a time if you weren't a WASP,you where treated poorly with limited access to sports clubs and certain restaurants.

[MiguelitoSan]

"I cleaned your room too" BULL. Should be "I sold all your stuff because you're 14 and cant make your own bed." Just kidding.

ALSO, why are they all whining?!

[JeffersonDinedAlone]

"Hey, kids, how would you like to go camping?" "Not in a million fucking years, Mom and Dad."

[nanlisa]

Very sadly, family life today is a far cry from the 50's and 60's. More than half the marriages in this country today end up in divorced. Children today are being raised in a single-parent household. There are bitter custody battles.

Both parents have to work today in order to survive. There are a lot of latchkey kids. Instead of a home-cooked meal, we're eating on the run, we're fast-food junkies, and we cook everything in the microwave.. In fact, we've become a 24/7 society.

[indigothecat]

@Pafuts Because back then, it was ok for women to consume a few calories. And a skinny-wirey woman was viewed as unattractive.

[Pafuts]

Why are the moms in these films always frumpy?

[corvus13]

That father really looks familiar.

At the end you see how they really make their money stretch. They catch their own food.

[EzeWong]

Where did I park my DeLorean? I need a time machine to go live there...

[Freebyrd7]

"With responsibilities goes privileges..."

The concept that rights come with responsibilities seems to have been lost.

[TheGroundedAviator]

@1955JAFO You have my sympathy buddy, no one should go through that.

By the way does this happen at all eigther then or now even in a more modest way? I know it's not like this film though as it's way to fake, and the acting a joke.