There was a big increase from 1940-1957. Since the 1940's to today, 9/10 Americans engage in premarital sex (Guttmacher Institute). If someone had an abortion back in the 1940's we can not know since it was illegal. See more in the link below.
To seal the deal. To make a commitment. Because marriage is a lifetime commitment, this is where the phrase came from.
The Holocaust only began in the 1940s; wars were fought thousands of years before that.
are you thinking of Laurits Melchior? If so, he was an opera singer in that era starting before the 1940s though.
In 1942 the United States home ownership rate stood at approximately 46 percent.
Before the 1940s, no black police officer worked in the deep south
in FDR's lifetime, no one had any concept of same-sex marriage. It's likely that if the idea had been presented to him, he would have opposed it, given that the vast majority of people in the 1930s and 1940s believed homosexuality was a mental illness.
I think it was made by Nell Carter before she died. Dinah Washington,in the 1940s.
Child marriage has only been a problem since the 1940s since that was when parents began to feel the need to shelter their children and provide "better lives". Children have been married off before they were even conceived for diplomatic reasons for centuries. In the case of Marie-Antoinette, her mother changed almost everything about her to marry her off and assure Austria safe from French invasion, but the marriage would only commence after Antonia (Marie) was able to bear children. I think she was around 13 or 14.
Josephine Baker was married four times. Her first marriage was to Will Baker in 1910 in St. Louis, Missouri. She later married Jean Lion in 1937 in Paris, France, followed by a brief marriage to an Italian man named Giuseppe Abatino in the late 1940s. Her final marriage was to Robert Brady in 1957, also in Paris.
because that's all they had but now we have didital ones that are better
Baby Boomers.
there is a special name for an eara in the 1940s it is ragtime