I'm 45. Big issues like slavery, racial equality, civil rights and equal rights for women were issues my parents always stood on the correct side of. There were no fights with them about issues that now would clearly be the domain of kids, unless you count free love or possibly premarital sex, which we kids supported and which they tended to frown on.

Mostly when I was a kid I fought with them about the same stuff my kid and others fight with us today about. Freedom to do whever I wanted. Privileges like staying out all night (a big no-no). The right to smoke cigarettes or dope or drink even though I was under age. Whether or not it was OK to have sex before marriage. The age-old classics, I'm afraid. They were cool on the big social issues. It was the home-based teenage freedom issues that they were so tough on.