If today’s social norms were applied to any of the generations of parents who preceded us, there wouldn’t be enough Child Protective Services agents in the world to handle it. The stack of neglect reports would reach to the moon. That goes for all parents before us. Boomers were practically feral as children, just like us. The difference: we were far more likely to grow up in divorced homes, among neighbors we didn’t know, and in places with high crime rates.
