Yep, it was different then. Of course we didn't have cell phones with raging social media, and I don't recall my parents telling me how entitled I was, nor did I win "participation trophies" for playing ball. ADHD wasn't the issue of the month, either. We did have cars and were a bit girl crazy in high school, but there wasn't so much violence among people. Maybe Vietnam changed a lot of American attitudes, especially politically, morally and in education, and in the wide spread use and acceptance of drugs?

I don't know. My teen years were happy times, positive times, idealistic times. There was certainly less fear "in the air", and I had a pretty good sense of freedom rather than what I am feeling these days (repression, polarization of the we/they kind, and a decline in ethics, morality and just plain common sense). But that's just me. 

I disagree, I don't think it's just you who feels that way.

I think that about covers it, with the possible addition of children now being "legally" drugged rather than parented and stored in their rooms until old enough and developed enough to leave home (which may be never).