the decades of the 1930s and 1940s were difficult years in both industrialized and developing countries.
Many families faced serious financial problems because the heads of households lost their jobs.
During World war II (1939-1945), millions of women had to take care of their homes and their children alone.
because so many man were at war, thousands of these "war widows"--that is to say, women whose husbands were away at war--had to go to work outside the home.
Most women worked long hours at hard jobs. there weren't many "perfect families."
They had problems