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How Far did young people's lives change between the early 1950's and the late 1960's?
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How Far did young people's lives change between the early 1950's and the late 1960's? Young people in the early 1950's had quite an upsetting and distressing life; England was just recovering from the Second World War. There was extreme damage that had been inflicted upon people's housing and their businesses. Basically the whole of England needed rebuilding from scratch. Young people living in these times not only had to suffer with all of the stress of having to watch their houses and businesses falling to pieces and then being rebuilt, they all had to have their food rationed until 1954. There was no such word as `teenager' in the 1950's; people went from being a child straight to being an adult. They reached "adulthood" at the age of about 12, and when they did, they dressed, acted and spoke almost exactly the same as their parents. They wore...
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