[sparklite2]

Married couples slept in twin beds, and if they were
in the same bed they had to have one foot on the floor
at all times.  You could be forgiven for wondering how
they managed to have children at all.

This had its drawbacks.  The divorce rate began its long march upward with the generation raised on Father Knows Best and Ozzie and Harriet.  Having come to believe married life was what they saw on the television, the rather different reality of it produced a disenchantment many couldn't get over.  At about this time, "shacking up" began to lose its pejorative potential as people increasingly opted for "cohabitation" rather than serial marriage and divorce.

[ExCTCitizen]

And of course, the adults wore pajamas to bed and wore dresses and pearls to clean. My mother never wore dresses to clean only slacks.