Families

    In Amy Guenther's family, women still have to do most of the cooking and  cleaning.  Occasionally the males of her family will help out.  The women in her family work along with doing the cooking and cleaning.  Fathers are more loving and caring towards their children than they used to be.  People are marrying later and having children later.  They are also not having more than three kids in Amy Guenther's family.  More of the children in her family are going to daycare rather than go to their grandparent's house.    Day care providers do more for the children and have more activities for them than their grandparents can provide.  The men in her family still have to work and the older males work and go out  to have fun on the weekends.  They go to bars and get drunk just about every weekend.  The women in her family that are past their thirties stay at home and keep the house clean, or watch television.  The young men and women of her family go out with each other.  They usually go to sports events together or they go over to other people's houses.  The women of her family work out of personal fulfillment and it's a bonus to have extra income coming in.  Today, both the man and woman have to work if they want to have decent or even valuable things in life.   All the women work on her dad's side of the family, except for her grandma.  On her mom's side only her aunt Barbara worked and now she's retired.  Her cousin's wives work, so the younger generation women are more excited about working to earn income for the home.
 

    Amie Prewitt's father moved to Cincinnati in 1973 to find employment and he found a job at the Railroad through a relative.  Her father and mother were also married in 1973.  Her father had to work out of town becuase of the slow economy in the early Eighties.   Her father worked third shift, 11 p.m. - 7 a.m.
 

    For Kevin Morath's family, higher education was not taken advantage by any one in his mother's immediate family except for her oldest sister.  She  received her degree from the Ohio College of Applied Science which his mother thinks may have been associated with UC, but she is not sure.  She remembers going to her graduation which was a big deal because someone in the family had received a degree.  His mother's sister also was a draftsman or a mechanical engineer which at that time was amazing field for a woman to enter.  His grandmother never worked outside the home and never drove a car.  She walked or took a bus to get to any destination.  His mom remembers her mom pulling a metal grocery cart hehing her to carry groceries home from the local grocery stroe in the neighborhood.  Often times, she would call the local keg or a "Mom and Pop" owned grocery store to place a small order so they could deliver it to their home.   Kevin's grandmother was very content to stay at home and never had any aspirations to further her education or enter the job market.  Kevin's grandmother on his father's side was very similar to his grandmother on his mother's side.  She  never worked outside of their home and never had any intent to do otherwise.  Kevin's paternal grandfather on the other hand, had job's ranging any where from a milk man to a real estate agent.
 

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