I've never understood why the WWII generation ended up having a bunch of worthless hippies for kids.
One theory I've heard is that they went through WW I as kids or maybe the great depression as kids and then WWII as adults and they came home and got married and had kids and then decided to try to make things easier for their kids to make sure that their kids would not have as rough as a life as they had. Maybe that caused some of their kids to be kinda soft and expect things from government. Just a theory.
Dr. Spock