Question

What problem did this create in American homes? Children didn't know their father's who had been gone for years. Women expected the men to do housework. Women who were used to working outside the home didn't want to give up their jobs. Years of war had left many people living without needed resources and it took them years to recover.

Answer 1

The differents situations  described in the question  have their roots in the consequences of a historical tradition of war of united states of america.

Many historians match that with war comes devastation, depression, deprivation and death. For example during the world war II more than 292.000 American soldiers killed in action. Most of them were father and mother or members of a family.

This produced that many childrens didn't know theirs father, the women awaiting the return of theirs husband, they  had to keep the job to survival and others without hope for living because had lost everything.

By the other hand those family situations contributed to an upsurge in divorce , resulting in severe problems among the youngs.