Each generation is a product of the one before. The younger generation feels "entitled". Parents (feeling guilt over working too much), pamper the children with electronic "babysitters" and elicit the government to help parent and keep them safe The cry, " For The Children" echos through the land. Marketing and politicians play into that theme. The young can"t help, but to feel entitled.
As for me, I have my memories. My first pocket knife (and my first girlfriend), when I was 5, found it in an abondoned building (the knife not the girl). Eating raw sugarcane on a Kentucky farm, at 6. And climbing  upto the roof on the outside of a 4 story apt. in Chicago, at 9.
 How did we survive?