I had an interesting discussion with my spinster never married 58 year old liberal sister, night before last.
She criticized our father, who was a jovial outgoing fellow. She said he was guilty of putting his arm around waitresses.
I told her that was just the way people were, back then. My sister said our mother didn't like it though.
Our parents remained together until his death months before their 50th anniversary.
We are going through an introspective time, whereby "the way the world was/is" is competing with "the way it ought to be" and I doubt much good will come of it.
As we "advance," fewer marriages take place, fewer last, more children are aborted or raised in single-parent homes--usually female.
Younger people use profanity like crazy. Yutes "hook up," yet would instruct their elders about relationships and behavior?