“Particularly in the evening, the family was expected to congregate informally in the living room. This image of living room family domesticity was widely portrayed in the home advertisements as well as the women’s magazines of the day. It is also the picture of the ‘ideal’ family publicized in the famous Dick and Jane elementary school readers.” (157)

(Palen, J. John. The Suburbs. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1995. Print.)