[Sam Gamgee]

I've actually always wondered about this question. It seems the Boomer generation was the first to really question traditional morality and experiment with alternate attitudes. So it makes me wonder what did the WWII generation do wrong that their children rebelled?

Was it neglect? Was it unloving parents who couldn't back up strict discipline with love, respect and understanding?

Having 4 children of my own I don't want them to rebel the way the Boomers did.

[HiTech RedNeck]

The bible answer is the admonition (warning) and training (means learning a life of grace) of the Lord.

A lot of people let it become about pride, and in so doing, grace just gets dumped on the floor. Our pride looks at what we can do, not at how God does things.

But grace is the divine engine, so to speak, that runs purification from sin.

[Responsibility2nd]

Was it neglect? Was it unloving parents who couldn’t back up strict discipline with love, respect and understanding?

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I’m a boomer and I also wonder the same thing. Having grown up with parents from “the greatest generation” in a time when America was at its best; how?

How did we devolve from the post-war greatness that was America to an Obama-hole country we now endure?

[jjotto]

In the 1890s, Swami Vivekananda set off a trend of enchantment with Hinduism in America. A ‘free love’ movement was one of the results, and then it was championed by anarchists like Peter Kropotkin, who had a wave of popularity. Socialism, at least since Marx, has had the goal of destroying middle-class morality.

I have heard the phrase ‘commercially designated stereotypes combined with middle-class wealth and ubiquitous mass media’ used to describe the reason for the degradation of even lip service to traditional morality.

[Lurking Libertarian]

It seems the Boomer generation was the first to really question traditional morality and experiment with alternate attitudes.

What about the "Roaring 20s"?

[Pelham]

” It seems the Boomer generation was the first to really question traditional morality and experiment with alternate attitudes. “

I suggest that you read up on the Roaring Twenties and Flappers, right after World War One.

Or the Transcendentalists, Brook Farm, the New Thought movement, the Oneida Community, all of it prior to the Civil War.

This stuff is nothing new and the Boomers were hardly the first.

[familyop]

"It seems the Boomer generation was the first to really question traditional morality and experiment with alternate attitudes.

Not the first, but the most recent and those to bring the most radical part of the decline, yes.

"So it makes me wonder what did the WWII generation do wrong that their children rebelled?"

Some in high places spoiled their children, who led the rest astray. There were earlier attempts to get romanticism and feminism going (second half of the 1800s, soon after 1900 into the twenties), but those attempts were cut off by economic depressions and other events.