Combine these two Atlantic articles, and you have a whole new cultural world that our kids are coming out of. What’s also interesting to me as an historian, however, is that we seem to have a “whole new world” every century or so. Such a dramatic shift in cultural norms isn’t unprecedented, in other words, but it sure is making our lives more complicated.
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/11/all-the-single-ladies/8654/
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/07/the-end-of-men/8135/