What do you think was the major social change in society during your lifetime?

Question

I hope that mostly senior citizens will respond to my question. But anybody's answer is welcome.

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Answer 1

It would have to be women's liberation--equal pay for equal work. A long time coming and hard fought for (including by me).

The fact that men thought they could get away with treating women as second class citizens always beneath them has always made me mad.

We contribute a lot more to society than men are willing to acknowledge. Especially the males of the generations before my own.

And the younger women of today are trying to just throw it all away, turning themselves back into no more than sex objects for the males of their generation--to be used and abused at will. All because music videos and "teen culture" movies say they must to be "popular".

Answer 2

The acceptance of illegitimacy. I know that word is politically incorrect now, but I don't know what else to call it.

When I was young, having a child out of wedlock was about the worse thing a young woman/girl could do. Now it is acceptable; in some places, even the norm, and we are all paying the price, both financially and socially.

And BTW I am an Atheist, my comments above have nothing to do with anything of a religious nature. It is just to me an obvious fact that it takes two parents to provide the kind of structure that a young human being needs.

Answer 3

When I was growing up racism was rampant. Cities were segregated, tolerance was almost nil, and race wars were everywhere. Now, although there is still intolerance, the blatant brutality is more under control. Equal opportunities abound both in the work place and in education.

Working mothers are now the norm, back when I was growing up the only reason a Mom would be working was because the husband was out of work or she was left alone.

The other thing that is evident is the lack of manners on today's kids. They have no idea of how to be polite and respectful. Just listen to the mouth on most of them and they way that they treat their elders. For shame.

Answer 4

Sexual liberation has had more impact on today's economy than all other factors. Computers fall under the guise of industry, so that isn't really a social change. Sexual liberation had its roots in WWII when women were doing men's jobs, but it died, then was reborn with bra burning...one of the most powerful movements we have seen. We are not there yet, but perhaps, with vigilance, we will make it a world where everyone has an equal chance at work, pay, respect.

Answer 5

Well, the single biggest social changes have been though the courts not the ballet boxes. Abortion, prayer in school, women's rights, 60's , ( a decade that I refuse to believe that I lived though), explicit sex, homosexuality, etc.

I think that Roe V Wade was the single worst ruling that courts have ever made.

When I was a young person during the late fifties and sixties, it was always thought and never questioned that a woman would never kill an unborn child, and would even give up her life to save that child. Today that has all changed for many in our country and it is all about the woman not the child. A very sad turn of events when an innocent baby is made to pay for the faults of two people. An innocent baby that never is given a chance and has no choice.

No doubt that abortion, an issue that has never been voted into law, has changed the face of our nation. From a kind, generous, giving people, we have turned into self-centered, self-righteous, self-serving, and self-preserving nation of faceless robots. While we justify the murder of an unborn child, we tell the world that we are still the pillar of morals and greatness. Nothing could be further from the truth.

The Christian morals and values that founded our great nation have been highjacked by people like Rosie O'Donnell who want us to believe that there should be "new" morals, morals that suit her and people like her.

Answer 6

WWII, Changed women's life on the home front, I was the youngest of six siblings, Two brother's went to war, Three sisters above me, Women worked out side the home at ammo and airplane factories etc. Joined the Wacs and the
Waves, Nurses were in the war zones, women traveling to meet there husbands on leave, Two brother-in-laws in service,One a semi driver four F, would drive nothing but Ammo, He felt so bad not being in service. When all came home, if they did, the adjustment, some married while in service, In big cities rentals were very scarce, And of course
the bay boomers! begining, Sub divisions came in to vouge,
Industry was booming, more people then ever before were making more money, then ever before, "Vets Cabs" a one car owned busniess, Two would share some times and swing shift the hours to drive. Later came T.V. that we thought
the wonder of wonders! So much more, But the being of era took a huge change in those times.

Answer 7

The end of segregation, political correctness, a bazillion new laws pertaining to your life in general. The transition from adding machines to calculators and typewriters to computers, wireless communication other than CB's or Fm communications, the list goes on and on, life just gets better and more complicated all the time. Keeps you on your toes and makes you roll with the punches.

Answer 8

The largest social change has been the effects of the internet and the ability to use cameras to see one another in a chat room situation...If you as a a senior have not experiecned it you need to to.. webcams are so cheap and easy to install and operate

Answer 9

So many. The civil rights movement, the spoiled hippies which I refer to as the Bowel Movement, the disgusting sexual revolution, the gay movement, AIDS, the loss of the steady hand of the WWII generation, the women's movement, the interstate highway system, the smart mouthed kid movement (just kidding, I wouldn't want to hurt the little darlings' egos), extreme political partisanship, Political Correctness to the puke degree, environmentalism beyond need to absurdity.

Answer 10

The abdication of parents from the responsibility for the moral and ethical education of their children. Turned over to nannies, day care workers, school teachers or television, parents wonder why their little darlings are dropouts, on drugs, out of wedlock parents, out of work, living at home at 25, in jail or busy killing their schoolmates.