Originally Posted by martyh

None of that proves that the morals were any different then and now though ,it just shows that it wasn't talked about .Both me and my brother were born out of wedlock in the mid sixties to 2 different fathers and my mother was the daughter of a infantry staff sergeant .
I do agree that numbers for teenage pregnancies and youth crime have gone through the roof compared to earlier generations ,my point is that the morals are roughly the same, the younger generations think the same as those previous ones ,the problem is that the standard of the morals from earlier generations is passed down to later ones .
The only way i can see to stop this is for a generation with strong morals and ethics to start the cycle again ,problem with that is society first needs to decide what morals do we want. Do we want teenage girls encouraged to have sex because they can get abortions or the pill legally with no questions asked .Do we accept youth crime as inevitable because the little dears come from a broken home ,slap an asbo on them by way of appeasing older generations and then give them a free holiday .
Harking back to past eras as the model for morality doesn't work for me .society changes and with it the accepted morals and most importantly how we deal with the people who break those moral codes that society has chosen to live by ,that is the problem as far as i am concerned .