Women's Rights To Married Women During The Second World War

WORLD WAR 2
As the Great Depression came to its set, a new obstacle for the American families began to rise; the second World War. New issues now confronted families like lack of shelter and schools. World War II also created a severe strain on the family; Husbands and wives were separated for long periods of time while at war. Many women were forced to become the head of the household because the husbands were not there, while they took factory jobs a while after the industrial revolution, this caused a spark in feminism which changed the way that women and girls were being brought up by implanting the idealistics of their values of being equal to men. By becoming employed in addition to caring for their home and children, huge stresses,

In the early version of the acts it enabled women to inherit their own property without their husbands’ debts, while also allowing them to have control over their own estates. However, most of the States were slow to protect married women’s rights to have individual control over their wages that they earned in the labor market. Although, by the early twentieth century, almost all states allowed a married woman to have their own property, to sue, be sued, to possibly contribute to contracts, and to control her property considering her

Researcher Richard J. Podell stated that “By the end of the century, two-thirds of all married women with children worked outside the home, and three in ten children were born out of wedlock. Over a quarter of all children lived with only one parent, and fewer than half lived with both their biological parents.”( Richard J. Podell Vol. 36. No.3) This proves that the majority of parents began to divorce often and caused a new sprout of family distinction in society. However, what divorce meant and how it was being obtained also began to change. In 1969, California became the first state to allow the “no-fault” divorce, which permitted a marriage to end by showing “irreconcilable differences.” Within sixteen years, every other state in the U.S followed California’s led in this shift, however it did not have a huge impact on divorce rates, thought it did impact social and cultural understandings of marriage and divorce which stretched the growth in the new branch of the “Single-Parent