v based, never seen a family sitcom that actually depicts a fairly more realistic family instead of the picture perfect everything is always perfectly maintained nice household of every other similar show
v based, never seen a family sitcom that actually depicts a fairly more realistic family instead of the picture perfect everything is always perfectly maintained nice household of every other similar show
That is quite literally what it was, a counter-narrative to the war in Việt Nam. Also as mentioned in this article, a picture of Henry Kissinger and his kids with the cast of The Brady Bunch.
All I'm saying is it's weird that Americans took heavy casualties in WW2, Korea, and Vietnam all before the start of a show perpetuating big families as the American average. Gotta replenish the soldiers somehow. 👀👄👀
It was just much more common back then tho, my dad was the last of 9 kids. Lots of farm families, or second generation from farmers (ie. kids of farmers) tend to just have lots and lots of kids. It was a strategy to get more free labor in a lot of ways, plus their religion tells them to pop out as many as possible. I do think the american government made programs to encourage birth as a cold war preparation thing, but that wasn't where the idea of a huge family came from. It was simply protestant farmers that did that.
... holy shit, i never thought of that
Also thanks for the article. 👀👀👀