What is the cause of our moral decline?

There has been a serious decline in moral standards over the past 50 years, and I regularly encounter behaviour that appals me. Respect itself has been rapidly disappearing, and the use of foul language is prolific. We appear to have reached a point where the parents often have very poor standards and pass these on to the children, with the result that this kind of behaviour is considered to be normal. To be fair, it must be very difficult to teach a child that swearing is wrong when the same words are used on television every day.

Freedom! Women have been given the chance to behave in the same way as men, having careers,not being picked on forbeing single mums, allowed in other words to have lives,because of this some men feel immasculinated and get violent and use weopons to be real men, although women can be worse. It is easier to get weapons and people are hardened by the availability of violent films which makes us forget the true horror of anothers demise. I have morals but I do not see not being married wrong nature doesn't require a piece of parer to allow me to have kids. I know right from wrng and what is important to me and live in the best way I can. Thing just don't seem so uptight anymore, this can be a good thing in some ways and a bad one in others.

Yes I think our moral standards have changed in the last 50 years. Girls have no modesty and boys have no respect. Parents are much more lenient and sometimes discipline is non-existent. The Baby Boomer generation including the Flower Revolution perpetuated free love and lack of discipline. During WWII women were asked to go to work to fill the jobs of men who were called or who volunteered to fight for their country. After the war, a large number of the women continued to work and the children were sometimes left to their own dictates. The coming of the mini skirts and hot pants, to my way of thinking, denegrated the image of American's sweethearts. Of course, we can't forget Dr. Spock who became a millionaire over night by telling parents not to spank their children but treat them with kid gloves. It is ironic to think that some 50 years later he announced to the world that he was wrong. I ask.....would our society be better morally had he not appeared on the scene. I just cant understand why the mothers of young teenage daughters allow them to go to school looking like harlots. It's a disgrace. No wonder there are so many rape victims.....I believe that they bring it on themselves. I won't say they deserve it because that would be unfair. But men being men "can't help themselves" poor dears. I feel that all public schools should go back to having a dress code that make young girls look like what they are and not someone older. Only the parents are in a position to do that not only by discipline but also by example. It is not enough to say do as I say not as I do. Young people learn more by example than they do by words. End of Sermon

I believe our morals have declined in the past 50 years. I couldn't tell you what it was, but I'm sure it has something to do with the secularization and liberalization of society. be it for good or bad, I think its all under the flag of "tolerance" that people LOVE so much they make it ironically bad.

yes our morals are highly changed in last 50 years this is because of fast movement of world scenerio, actually these days money is most important than everything like sentiments etc.