Post World War II Society - The Baby Boomers
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As soon as the men came home from war, the women started having babies.  Men and women were dedicated to having a family and home. Elaine Tyle May wrote in Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era, "Nearly everyone believed that family togetherness, focused on children, was the mark of a successful and wholesome personal life." The existence of prosperity and the need for men to conform in then business world was described in Organization Man by William Whyte and The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit by Sloan Wilson.  Two other influential books were Baby and Childcare by Benjamin Spock, that also espoused the family, centered upon his view of scientific child raising.  

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