LOL! This was not the norm. Today we have middle class house wifes downing their 5 kids in the bath tub. We have daily drive by brutal shootings in every city in America. Daily!
It is so common in todays America, it don't even make the freaking news unless 30 people are murdered at one time. Every week we read about insane, brutal murders and almost monthly work place, and school mass shootings etc.
Again, I'd take what we had in the 60s any day over what we are left with today.
Would you even think of letting your 7 year old girl play outside with other little kids, after dark in the summer time in todays America? I think not.
Things have definitely gotten worse, because the 60s were the beginning of something very evil, on many levels. But the point I was making is that the people who made this happen in the 60s - that is, the people who were preaching the “if it feels good, do it” mantra - were not the teenagers who actually did it, but older people from the earlier generation.