Suburban 50's housewife

A suburban housewife from the 50's talks about being a prisoner in her own home with no car. She can't goto PTA meetings, see her friends OR shop... cute little clip.

This clip was taken from a show that airs on the History Channel in Canada called "It seems like yesterday". The show is filled with this type of footage, check it out if you enjoyed this!

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• suburban
• 50s
• ford
• cars
• housewife

[nanlisa]

My mother was a housewife and a mother. She didn't work outside the home for thirty years; from the time that my oldest brother was born until my sister was in eighth grade. She only worked part-time on the weekends as a hotel switchboard operator. My father was the one who worked to support us. How could my mother work full-time outside the home when she had to take care of us? At least she was there. And she loved being a housewife and a mother.

[ForeverKokiri]

@Ardwynna You should tell that to the "feminists" that I know. They think that all men are idiots and that any woman who chooses to be a SAHM mom is accepting male supremacy...

[KittyKattyYukiLvr]

@BeagleSugar My mother fed me on WIC and had me out of wedlock! I'm in college and AM a rational lady and my mother's a schoolteacher. My father is also an excellent man, I'm sorry you meet only people like that, because I meet people who are a wide range of things and don't bother to put them in any boxes.

[menetjunky]

i wish i could stay at home to raise my son. we'd both be better for it.

[Tregaskis47]

@Ardwynna Sounds like you would be bitter in any era...life was safer, families were happier and prosperity was on everyone's minds back in the 50's. I was there.

[Tregaskis47]

Kinda like those days when divorce was a dirty word, children actually went to school, learned and became successful, you could leave your doors unlocked because crime was mostly non-existent in the suburbs...yeah, those horrible, demeaning, restrictive days.

[lscdan]

mmm... when women stayed in da house where they should be-takin care of the family!!!

[C2010X1]

"I was practically a prisoner at home, well that's all changed now, now that I killed him"

[kipkayify]

I love reading all of the heated debates in the comments XD

[kipkayify]

@BeagleSugar Indeed. Being a mother is a very difficult and honorable job. Women should, of course, enjoy the outside world, but they shouldn't stick their nose up at motherhood. I have so much respect for my mother who made the choice to stay home and raise me and my siblings instead of working. Very few people nowadays have the selflessness, patience, and compassion to raise children.

[ImJustHeretoLurk]

"But that's all changed, now. I learned how to fucking walk."

[garybsg]

@Ardwynna Sorry, but the data just doesn't support you. Whites and even blacks had less abortions, broken families and crime. Strong families were the key. 60-80% of black children born in the 1930s-1950s had a father and mom at home. Blacks suffered less crime, less drug addiction and less out-of-wedlock pregnancies etc. Behavior and values make a shocking difference in people lives.