[A CA Guy]

Starting in the 60s many of the people becoming adults started to be fools.
Your hippies, free love, drugs and so forth.

That was IMO the start of the devaluation of the American family.
These types fostered support for things like Johnson's great society programs.
These people were not of the stuff the prior WW2 generation were made up of at all.

[laney]

My mother's surrounding neighborhoods mid to late 1940's.
Southern Calif.
Neighbor to the left, 2 parent family- Father major alcoholic returning from India after World Warll- Beat mother beat sons, sons ran way from home one ended up in jail.

Neighbors to the right- 2 parent family. Father habitual gambler lost all the money at the race track, mother made money by scrubbing the floor at the USO, my family gave them food.

Neighbors across the street. Father molesting his teenage daughter, mother could do nothing she became a drunk.

Yes All families were doing so well prior to Baby Boomers.

[wtc911]

The world did not begin in 1965. All the media that helped shape the values of the time was run by 'greatest generation' types. The draft that could send you arbitrarily to die in a war that nobody understood and the war itself were initiated by 'greatest generation' politicians. And, that war was lost and abandonded by 'greatest generation' leaders leaving over 50,000 dead boomers.

Detroit, which used to be America, was run into the ground and surrendered to the Japanese by 'greatest generation' corporate and union leaders.

Roe v. Wade was both argued and decided by 'greatest generation' lawyers and jurists...before the large majority of boomers could even vote.

The Great Society of welfare give aways and handouts was ushered in by the 'greatest generation' led by a potus for whom absolutely zero boomers were old enough to vote for or against.

Affirmative Action...'greatest generation'.

Immigration reform that opened the flood gates from the south and Asia while shutting the door from Europe...100% 'greatest generation'

Your view of the sixties and early seventies seems to have been informed by afternoon specials.