"What if the Age of Aquarius Had Not Been?"
             The year 1969 brings back memories for many people. Some have good memories while some have bad. Today some people are still living in the late sixties and early seventies while some regret this era ever existed. What if these years had not existed? Not actually the years themselves, but what if the "Age of Aquarius", as it has been referred to, had never existed? Can you imagine how life would be different for us today? Family dynamics would be entirely different, as would the overall perception of the female population. Controversial topics such as drugs, sex, abortion, racism, etc. would be viewed with entirely different opinions from the majority of the population. How different would our lives be had the people we call hippies never exercised their freedom from the restraint they had known in their ordinary lives?
             Looking back first into the decade of the fifties, we find storybook families such as The Cleavers from Leave It To Beaver (1957-1963) and the Andersons from Father Knows Best (1954-1958)(Rich). The characters in these popular fifties television programs depict family life as being perfect as perfect could be. Wives wore high heals and pearls and had three hot meals on the table at the same time every day, dinner of course being as soon as the husband walked in from a hard days work. Husbands worked hard all day and came home to a fresh home-cooked meal, then relaxed in their chair while reading the newspaper for the remainder of the evening. Children played in the yard with the white picket fence. Every once in a while the kids broke a window playing ball or argued over something petty, but everyone's differences were resolved by simply saying "I'm sorry". Children respected their parents and spouses respected each other. Now everyone knows these families were strictly fictional and in no way existed in real l...