Early indications are that many of the rising generation — Generation Z — are reacting to some of their Generation X and millennial parents’ seemingly unmoored lives by anchoring themselves back to traditional family and organized religion.
Undeniably, the ubiquitous baby boomer generation defiantly reordered American society through their self-willed revolutions over sex, drugs, divorce, abortion, race and feminism, among others. While a couple of these revolutions perhaps were overdue and important to the welfare of the American society, others have been very destructive. The boomers’ passionate pursuit of anti-establishment protests and lifestyles extensively transformed the culture and its important underpinning institutions, including the government, education, religion and, most significantly, the family.