This all created an ever growing "live for today" attitude about life, with sexuality and mind-numbing drug use becoming freer and more open. This, of course, this was bound to cause family problems. While television in the 60s presented a raw, real, scary, and disturbing view of the world to families, it also gave them a temporary escape from their 60s reality with its seemingly contrary entertainment programming.
There were Saturday morning cartoons, light-hearted family sitcoms, musical variety shows, and old movies. Sci-fi was still in its developing stage, but the 60s produced futuristic and edgy dramas such as The Twilight Zone , The Outer Limits, and the most notable and longest-lasting - Star Trek.
The 60s were defiantly far from perfect, but it was the perfect time to be an adventurous kid. Family life in the 60s was linked to freedom, so parents were more permissive, and family time was less of a priority.
Teens could hang loose, and there were few helicopter parents. If you were born in the 60s, your best times were probably spent riding your bike, playing with friends, listening to rock music, wearing go-go boots, miniskirts, bell-bottom trousers or "hippie" jeans, making a tie-dyed t-shirt , watching American Bandstand on TV, and learning to do the twist. Although what's listed below would be almost scary to a 21st Century parent, this was "normal" for kids growing up in the 60s:.
Freedom and change were the anthems of the 60s. It's not that family lost its importance, but over this decade families became less structured, family ties loosened, parents became more permissive, children became more independent and self-reliant, and family life became more colorful and complex.
Understanding Family Life in the s The s were turbulent, violent, but also colorful years. The s' Family Evolution At the beginning of the decade, most families looked very much like a s' family. The Vietnam War By the mids, the Vietnam war was raging. The Birth Control Pill In , the federal government approved the birth control pill's use, and the sexual revolution began. Student activists grew more radical. They took over college campuses, organized massive antiwar demonstrations and occupied parks and other public places.
Some even made bombs and set campus buildings on fire. At the same time, young women who had read The Feminine Mystique celebrated the passage of the Equal Pay Act and joined the moderate National Organization for Women were also increasingly annoyed with the slow progress of reform.
They too became more militant. The counterculture also seemed to grow more outlandish as the decade wore on. That year, the brutal North Vietnamese Tet Offensive convinced many people that the Vietnam War would be impossible to win. The Democratic Party split, and at the end of March, Johnson went on television to announce that he was ending his reelection campaign.
Richard Nixon, chief spokesman for the silent majority, won the election that fall. Martin Luther King Jr. Police used tear gas and billy clubs to break up protests at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
And the urban riots that had erupted across the country every summer since continued and intensified. In the summer of , more than , young people trooped to the Woodstock music festival in upstate New York, a harmonious three days that seemed to represent the best of the peace-and-love generation.
By the end of the decade, however, community and consensus lay in tatters. Start your free trial today. But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us! Subscribe for fascinating stories connecting the past to the present. Young people were finally given a voice and freedom to do what they wanted. The parents of the Sixties teenage generation had spent their youth fighting for their lives in the Second World War and wanted their own children to enjoy their youth and be able to have more fun and freedom.
By the early s, teenagers were already significantly different to those of a decade ago. One of the biggest, defining aspects of the s was music. The Beatles are an excellent example of how music influenced the lives of young Britons. Young people began to stand up for their beliefs and their individuality. Recreational drugs were also synonymous with the Sixties and became more commonly used in the latter part of the decade.
Images of the Woodstock festival show people high on marijuana and LSD, dancing in fields with paint on their face and their hair flowing free.
It was very difficult for anyone in show business to avoid becoming involved in drugs in some way and as easily influenced young people looking for fun, many were encouraged to follow their idols and take hallucinogenic drugs. The effects of these drugs were also reflected in psychedelic art and films, bringing new, vibrant and exciting colours and patterns to the forefront.
People began to challenge and question authority, something that would have been unheard of a decade ago. Profumo denied the affair but later admitted that he had lied to the House of Commons and resigned. The traditional deference to figures of authority was now gradually being replaced by suspicion and mistrust.
The s were a decade of revolution and change in politics , music and society around the world. It started in the United States and the United Kingdom, and spread to continental Europe and other parts of the globe. The s were an era of protest. In the civil rights movement blacks and whites protested against the unfair treatment of races. Towards the end of the decade more and more Americans protested against the war in Vietnam. Many people in the United States thought that Americans had no reason to fight in war that was so far away from home.
Female activists demanded more rights for women, whose role in society began to change.
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