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1980-90s American sitcoms had a trope of conservative children rebelling against their hippie parents (as seen in Family Ties and Clarissa Explains It All). Was this phenomenon common in real life, or did it just stick in pop culture as a funny reversal of the expected parents-children dynamic?

by /u/JJVMT in /r/AskHistorians

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