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The 'Traditional Family' That Never Was by Wren Walker

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television programs like "Father Knows Best" and "Leave It To Beaver," the populace was brainwashed into thinking that married life was bliss, children were brought up as respectful and contributing  members of society, and that nothing bad ever happened behind closed doors. Walker brings to light the sheer deceptiveness of this fabricated existence, punctuating his argument with statistical information  that proves just the opposite. II. DISCUSSION The concept that men have long been entitled to inherent privileges in marriage, while women  have had to earn their place in the same state of matrimony, is a point clearly made in Walkers article. Asserting feminist views about the vast differences that have  historically existed between the role men and women play in relationships, Walker contends that the fairer sex has routinely been victimized by society merely because of gender angered by the  grossly incongruent capacity of man and wife as they once existed within the so-called "traditional family." Eloquently phrased and duly pungent is the authors amazement at how dreadfully men  have been known to behave while in the bounds of marriage. Without so much as a thought for the woman, Wren discusses how men of the 1950s entered into  marriage for their own gain: to have someone tend to their needs, wants and desires. It is only by happenstance, according to Walkers account, that the woman might reap  any benefit at all from her matrimonial vows. "The ideal woman in this tight little family situation should stay at home with the children and be a helpmate to  her husband. If shes bored, she can always pray more. If shes unfulfilled, she should pray more. If she wants a different life, she really MUST pray