Although there were a number of wholesome family shows on TV in the 50's, like Father Knows Best and Donna Reed show, the close interaction in the family was starting to disintegrate because of other TV shows, other media, and the communist pundits. Plus, teenagers have a tendency to rebel, but the parents made little attempt to reign in kids during the Flower Generation. I know, because I was the classic juvenile delinquent with pre-occupied parents who had to have the latest innovative stuff.
The Greatest Generation's failing was just the beginning. I still hold my Boomer hippie generation for most blame. Those idiot hippies went on to become teachers and screwed up academia. It's since been an exponential (which I doubt many Millenials can spell) lowering of basic morality, workable standards of behavior and human virtues. Read the book, or don't because it will most likely make you depressed.
Increased mobility, due to technological advancements also made the impact.
Consider that, most people were born, lived and died pretty much in the same place, up until maybe the mid-20th Century.
Today, we don’t think much of all of living in several different places, and all the travel we now do to other places.
It is an excellent book, in which Bork justifiably laid blame on judicial activism long before most people realized what it is—a usurpation by the courts of the proper role of the legislatures, and the backdoor use of the courts to get around the Will of the People—and that it has been happening since FDR.
Slouching not Sliding