What is it like to live in the Cleaver family?

Well, the Beaver is a bit annoying and Mom and Dad are a couple of squares. Other than that things are perfect...ha ha!

Nothing but a nightmare. I mean really, the Cleaver family? That is the most unrealistic image of a family ever. They hardly ever have any arguments which isn't like a normal family. Also the way they dress is not exactly normal. Its way too structured and too perfect to be real. I think I'd go nuts in the first 48 hours of living in their household. But imaginary as it may be, it does represent the ideals that many wish they had in their family, that just don't exist.

a lot like my family. we have love and high regard for each other. we don't disrespect our parents and have no vulgarities in our homes. i'm from a large family. seven children all from the same married parents. six of us are married and none have had separations or divorce. we married before living together and bearing children. our parents were very successful in creating a happy family. my mother was well thought of in the community. close to 500 attended her funeral. my father willbe dying in the next few days and i suspect we will see the same honor. in the last month of his hospital stay, he has never been alone even though the travel, missed work and hotel bills have left a toll. five years ago,i moved in with my father just after my mother passed. i was a newlywed. i'm happy to have found a husband that was raised with the same sort of integrity that the cleavers portrayed on screen and the rest of society balks at. i wouldn't trade my family happiness for any of the debauched ideals that are popular today.

The way I see it, it could go either way. Maybe they really are a happy, remarkably well-functioning family; or maybe they've got all sorts of ugly issues lurking beneath the surface. My guess is that back in the day when families more resembled the Cleavers, there were a lot of both types of family.

Sometimes Ward is pretty hard on the Beaver.