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I would say that is probably the right time. Women forced by the necessity of war to leave the home to work, found they liked working. (not all of course). Then you have a huge, I don't know if spoiled is the right word, but certainly more pampered then previous generations of babies born after the war. Why were they pampered? Parents having been children during the depression and young adults during war, wanted an easier way for their kids. I don't think we can blame them for that.

But when that bunch came of age they had very different ideas. Tradition was "square". They had to find themselves. I think their parents never really burdened them with piety. They wanted them to be happy and so the parents just looked the other way.

Now here we sit. People back in the day would be mortified if they had one divorce, now they have multiple divorces and not only are they not embarrassed they demand that the Church change to accommodate them.

Then there is this need for things! No one wants to raise the few children they bring into the world. Day care at 6 weeks old all so the couple can have a bigger house to fight over when they split up. It goes on and on.

By way of example. My grand niece(not Catholic, not that it matters but let me just show how this goes, she also is employed).

She is now married, but has two children with a man she never married, now she has married and has one on the way plus a step child. Unknown whether the man she married was ever married to that child's mother. The niece is the product of a mom who had three kids with a man she never married, but married another man and had two more kids.

Her Mom's parents are both divorced and remarried. Her biological fathers parents are both divorced and remarried. Her step fathers parents are both divorced and remarried and the father of her first two children, his parents and all of his grandparents are divorced and remarried. So the children have 24 grandparents. How the Hell does anyone keep track of this let alone honor it?