Debate continually rumbles on about complacent Boomers and complaining Gen Zers, and over whether young people are worse off than preceding generations. Most commentary focuses on socio-economic factors, such as the housing crisis, relative wages and so forth. One area that is often overlooked, however, is the moral and spiritual vacuum handed on to Gen Z by their parents, who include Boomers, Generation X and some Millennials.
Young people today have been left unmoored by a generation of parents who refused to take up their responsibility to direct their children. In offering love in the wrong ways, these parents paved the way for a society that distrusts authority, having never been offered a healthy model of it.
