[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.

[Sam Gamgee]

True, and I do recall in CS Lewis sequel to Out of the Silent Planet, he talks about the coming post-modern age, long before the term was even in use. The intellectual class basically attempt to corrupt Britain in the book That Hideous Strength. So you are right, the intellectual forces behind the moral decline were forming long before the mass moral decline took shape.

It is hard to imagine what real life was like for the boomers, not being one, and knowing my mother was actually brought up in a very strict and spartan atmosphere.