What Would June Cleaver Do?
Sometimes I wonder if we think enough about the changes in social structure that have occurred over the past 50 years and the impact it has on eating habits and health outcomes.
Take a trip back to the 1950s, and think June Cleaver from Leave it to Beaver (if you’re too young to know the show, visit http://www.leaveittobeaver.org/). Her days were spent managing her family. This was her job. It was most likely she didn’t have her own car. Aprons were something she wore every day. An afterschool snack was ready to go when the boys walked through the door at the end of the day as was a cocktail and dinner when her husband got home from work.
Fast forward to today, where roughly 60% of women work (75% full-time, 25% part-time). With the economy as it is, there is even more pressure on all employees, including women, to work longer hours and to do more with less in the office. At the same time, mom is still the primary manager of the family and the household. So while she’s headed out the door to work, her other duties have only dropped slightly in comparison to what June did 50 years ago.
Do we really believe this doesn’t impact how often dinner gets put on the table, whether kids are eating breakfast before school, what gets put on the dinner plate, and whether there are fruits and vegetables in the house?
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