What Killed America Pt.1 (How World War 2 Affected The American Mother.)

When America won World War 2, it changed a lot.
Before the war, the grueling depression was taking place. In the early 1930s, over 9,000 banks went bankrupt. One in every four American men was unemployed.
However, World War 2 changed all that. Millions of men entered the military service while thousands of factories needed workers for the making of guns, aircraft, and tanks. The economy was surging as the GDP grew by over 80 percent.
By 1945, only 1.9 percent of American men were unemployed.
Not only did the war change the economy, it also made America the world superpower. Winning this war showed the rest of the world that America and her people were a force to be reckoned with.

This leads us to 1945. The war has ended, and a normal life soon awaits. Millions of servicemen came home, marriages surged, and families began having children. Over the next ten years, nearly 38 million babies are born and soon after named the baby boomer generation.

Now back to the title for pt. 1: How did World War 2 affect the American mother?
During World War 2, millions of husbands and fathers had been taken away from their homes and sent to war. With so many men gone and America's factories desperately needing workers, women entered the workforce in great numbers. Women who had once stayed at home were suddenly building airplanes, ammunition, and ships and filling jobs that had traditionally been held by men. Over six million women entered the workforce during the war. "Rosie the Riveter" became the symbol of the American working woman. Rosie looked brave, determined, and even manly as she was advertised in blue jeans, with bulging muscles, and ready to take on the jobs men once had. It was advertised during the war that the greatest of women were those that left their homes and took jobs in the factories.

Their help was greatly needed to build military equipment for the men overseas. If it were not for these brave women that helped, the war could have gone in another scary direction. Leaving the home was completely understandable during this emergency time in America's history.

However, this creates a subtle problem that would surface later on. This transition meant that the home no longer had the constant presence of the mother as it once had. The mother's main focus becomes the factory job and not children or homemaking. Problematically, the home, children, and role of the mother suffer greatly. 

It is this break-up of the traditional home that I believe will lead to major problems later on.

Well, once the war ended, millions of men returned, taking back their jobs in the workforce, while the women were expected to return to the home. This peaceful transition did not last very long, as many women in the late 1940s once again left the home in favor of a working job. Unlike World War 2, America was not facing a crisis and in need of women working these kinds of jobs. The unemployment rate was historically low at about 1.9 percent. Many women were not satisfied with their role of mother and homemaker, and by 1950, so many women had taken jobs that they accounted for almost a third of the national workforce.  

Again, this is rather sad because the greatest purpose a mother has is to raise her children and be a helpmeet to her husband. 

Consider what the Bible says when telling the older women to teach the younger:

Titus 2:5
“To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, and obedient to their own husbands...

I'm not saying it's wrong for a woman to get a job. There are certainly many cases where a woman should get a job, but rather, I believe that when mothers leave the home, it sets the stage for other problems that affect the children in the home and the traditional role of that mom.

This first topic leads us to the early 1950s. The economy is still doing great. Americans are in a state of happiness, and baby boomers are being born all the time, growing the average family. 

In the midst of all this, something is distantly rising that has arguably created the most spiritual destruction in the American home. 

It starts subtly but eventually creeps into the lives of nearly every American home.

That something was television.