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.
birdgirl73 Reviewed by birdgirl73 on . Example from previous generation? Does anyone know of an example meeting the following requirements: * People around the age of 50 now, in their youth at the time * Fighting their parents about something we now know to favor the side of the kids (such as the case will hopefully be 30 years from now about marijuana) So, basically, something like arguing with your parents about how slavery is wrong, back in the day when everyone thought it was OK, but for people who are now 50, like I said. I hope that makes sense Rating: 5