This has been 40 years in the making, so not really fair to place blame one place.
I will say this...I have friends that are parents and they will drive to 3 different drive thrus to get food that is approved by their offspring...AKA being bossed around instead of parenting. All day asking for approval based on feelings...it starts there.
When I was a child the parents were unified in raising the children. The parents successful marriage was the main concern and as a kid you obeyed your parents and took what they gave you. It was the same for my friends.
Now I watch the way my generation and younger raise kids even in my family the woman and her kids are the central unit of the family and the father has been reduced to a homeless guy who they let stay in the house. The man will cook, clean, do laundry, get the kids ready for school while maintaining a full time job while the woman just does her "career." If the man gets out of line by disciplining the children he could be booted from the house. Woman know the courts are giving them everything in a divorce so the husband is like an outsider.
You hear now of the "man cave." A place where the man can go to watch tv, read, or do an activity he enjoys. The man cave of yesteryear was the whole damn house!