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    We frequently hear about family values ​​and how they have diminished in modern society. The majority of society no longer goes to church, no longer converses with their neighbors, children no longer play with a ball in the street. One of the most notable is a two-parent family; where the husband would provide and the wife would manage the house. This has changed significantly over the past 60 years, due to the feminist movement for career options for women, equal opportunities and the dual lifestyles of housewife and employee. The realism of the kitchen sink drama references the plays of the 1950s/60s. . These pieces called into question the private life of a not-so-common family. In "A Taste of Honey" (1957), Shelagh Delaney differentiates society's views regarding single mothers, homosexual men, interracial relationships, and sexual conflict between men and women. The play was first performed by Joan Littlewood's Theater Workshop on May 27, 1958 (Pickering 1988). Theater censorship in Britain shared much in common with cinema. The Lord Chamberlain and the British Board of Film Censors employed a system of censorship that depended on pre-screening and pre-production reviews (Companion to the Theater 1987). The censorship applied to cinema established different quality standards from those on stage, which is why they introduced the X certificate in January 1951. In 1952, a collective of poets and novelists formed "The Movement", which began writing kitchen sink dramas, John Osborne' Look Back In Anger 1956 (King, 2005), was the leader of the collective. Members of the movement were Philip Larkin "The Less Deceived" 1955 (Thompson, 1987), Kingsley Amis "Lucky Jim" 1954 (King), JD Enright "The Laughing Hyena" 1953 (King) and Th...... middle of paper....../theory/society.shtmlhttp://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/54http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/citizenship/brave_new_world/immigration.htmhttp https://redroom.com/member/orna-b-raz/writing/women%E2%80%99s-two-roles-the-attitude-to-work-in-1950s-britain-as-reflected-in- pehttp http://www.runnymedetrust.org/uploads/publications/pdfs/LoneMothers-2010.pdfhttp://www.sprowstonhigh.org/cms/resources/revision/English/A%20TASTE%20OF%20HONEY-%20Revision% 20 guide. pdfAldgate, A., Robertson, CJ (2005) Censorship in Theater and Film (1st ed.) Edinburgh University Press LTD.King, N. & King, A. (2005) The Complete AZ English Literature Handbook (5th ed.) Hodder & Stoughton Education.Pickering. D. (1988) Dictionary of Theater, (1st edition) Sphere Books LTD The Penguin GroupThompson. P, Salgado. G (1987) Companion to the Theater, (3rd ed.) JM Dent &Sons LTD.