Well, in those days you couldn't be divorced that easily, so it was more viable to be a stay-at-home mum. California was the first U.S. state to adopt what are

Well, in those days you couldn't be divorced that easily, so it was more viable to be a stay-at-home mum. California was the first U.S. state to adopt what are now called 'no-fault' divorces in the United States in 1969. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-fault_divorce http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-fault_divorce