Before the 1960s: Tracing America’s Moral Decline to its 1920s Roots

The 1950s was blip, not a norm.

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Commentators often point the 1960s as the turning point in the degradation of morals and destruction of the aspiration of the two-parent family. It didn’t decline after the 1960s. The decline happened had already happened by the 1920s. What we saw in America wasn’t not the American norm but an anomaly. James Gillis in th…