"The 13er childhood years, roughly from the mid-1960s through the early 1980s, defined an era of unremitting hostility toward children. One of every four rental apartments banned children, a 50 percent increase over the Boomer child era. The homicide rate against children under age four more than doubled. Adults of fertile age doubled their rate of surgical sterilization. The number of legal abortions per year rose tenfold. Birth-control technology became a hot topic—as did the cost and bother of raising a child, seldom an issue when Boomers were small…The proportion of G-rated films fell from 41 to 13 percent, and Walt Disney Studios laid off cartoonists. The nation financed a growing share of its consumption by piling up federal debt and other unfunded liabilities whose greatest burdens, adults realized, would someday fall on small children."
