What is a society in which the younger generation became less permissive than the previous generation?

Question

20th-century U.S. history seems to show that, in general, each generation is more permissive than the previous one. Things that were taboo for parents become more common-place for their children.
But, it seems to me that this can not be universal.

Can you name some societies and time-periods when the opposite was the case, so that I can know where to look to learn about the counter-examples?
Or, is my assumption completely off-base and the U.S. and/or the 20th-century are the abberation?

Uhhhhmm...Exactly, Meg.
That is the whole point of my question.

Answer 1

How about the periods following the appointment of Stalin, or the time of Mao's Cultural Revolution. During these periods society went from a more liberal society to a more heavily regulated one.

Answer 2

Your statement is not true. In the 1920 there was more drug use and What would be call immoral behavior than in the 30 or 40. There is also the misunderstand of the dangers around cause by the speed of the new. More children were abducted in the 50 than in the 90. We think that the opposite is true because we hear of most of them now You hear about a children taken in Florida or Texas. In the 50 the story would only be reported in the area that the child lived.

Answer 3

In the US the younger generation is more permissive about sex but less permissive about smoking, drinking , ethnic jokes, racial and gender discrimination etc. than in 1960.
The Victorians were less permissive about almost everything than the previous generation.
Sparta developed one of the least permissive society in history, though not with rules we would approve of.
Rome changed after the triumph of Christians.

IF each generation were permissive than the previous one, where would we be after thousands of years of history???

Answer 4

I would say Nazi Germany. It wasn't over a long period but it happened quickly.