I would have to blame the overcompensation of parents...always wanting their kids to have more and better, and easier existences than they had... not always the right approach, I don't think. It loses too many valuable lessons that you can't learn any other way then to have to rough it sometimes. It's too hard to say 'no' when you don't HAVE to so they don't. It breeds an entitled attitude toward the world.

Honestly I think the "greatest generation" gave birth to the worst, and it's done nothing but continue downhill from there.