Sometimes reformers applied conventional virtue to refurbishing an older order. ... The economy was increasingly separating women and men into sharply distinct economic roles. ... They were often regarded suspiciously by the old-stock Americans. ...
Because of declining death rates, couples are more likely to grow into old age together than in the past and children are more likely to have living grandparents. ... In he 1990 Virginia slims poll, women were most upset by their lack of money, followed by the refusal of their men to shoulder childcare and domestic duties. (Creating America, pg.251) Does this state that men still believe that a women's place is in the home, even though women are out working a full time job, bringing money into the family. Men should help with the childcare and the domestic duti...
Men started out wearing powdered wigs and breeches and changed to wear long pants and short hair. ... If a girl was twenty-five years old, and still was not married, it was considered a disgrace to her family. ... As time went on people started getting married older and began having less children. ...
