Yes, it’s definitely a different world today for those who remember growing up decades ago. For one thing, the TV wasn’t so full of smut and the kids could grow up more innocent.
That is a fact.
In the past we hid things from our parents, and as parents, we hid things from our kids
The reality is that we strove to not do wrong at all, but if, or when we slipped up, we tried to conceal it, bury it, and move on, always fighting our worse impulses, and fighting to reinforce good among others, and in turn, they tried to reinforce and encourage goodness in us.
The culture wall was broken down, and now it is the worship of money that drives us, if there is a short term, but profitable return on fart jokes, or homosexuality, or cussing on a TV show for a writer, or Producer, then they get the money and run, and God knows that it is much easier writing than that old stuff, which must have been extremely demanding in talent and skill to produce.
Yeah, kids could be kids.