lectures inn history, paul marino teaches a class on 1950's american culture. he describes how post-world war ii society changed due to the baby boom, suburbanization, and the emergence of teenage culture. here is a preview. families, the chief institution by which these, by which individuals are socialized, and families of victorians, it goes without saying but it was monogamous and heterosexual. that the family was the nuclear family and it was between one man and one woman only. but again, to emphasize the ways in which victorian social standards were different from earlier ones, it was still voluntary, no arranged marriages, the family was much more based on a section rather than interest or compulsion. and it was nuclear, this is not the extended family, this is premodern society and the modern nuclear family. coming to shape in the 19th century and into the 20th. so divorce therefore is limited. faulty, no states had no divorce laws until the 1960's. divorce was deliberately meant to be expensive and difficult to obtain credit was stigmatized -- obtain. i