The point of the article is that both mothers and fathers departed from the Old Morals and raised their children with what amounted to a "moral vitamin" deficiency.
It didn't help that the postwar economic prosperity allowed well-to-do parents to gift their teenage children with personal automobiles. Too much, too soon, too easily, leads to an assumption of self-worth and entitlement.
It also doesn't help that motion pictures and television created the phenomenon of "the Celebrity," a person around which the world seems to fawn and glow. "I want to be like---" is the result, where the person being emulated is really only a persona.
One might blame the lack of fathers?
The point of the article is that both mothers and fathers departed from the Old Morals and raised their children with what amounted to a "moral vitamin" deficiency.
It didn't help that the postwar economic prosperity allowed well-to-do parents to gift their teenage children with personal automobiles. Too much, too soon, too easily, leads to an assumption of self-worth and entitlement.
It also doesn't help that motion pictures and television created the phenomenon of "the Celebrity," a person around which the world seems to fawn and glow. "I want to be like---" is the result, where the person being emulated is really only a persona.
I agree.
Then enter massive consumerism, the digital age (which removed so much human connection) and the move away from religion.
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