It is the "special snowflake" syndrome. Parents are raising (or not) their kids to believe the world should revolve around them. So many parents I see are trying to be "friends" with their kids instead of being parents. I was raised by a strict parent and a "fun" parent (who still didn't take any guff from me). I recall many times seeing parents threaten their kids with "if you don't behave, we leaving [the park, the store, the ice cream parlor] and then they don't follow through. All that teaches the kid is that the parent is a pushover and won't actually leave [the park, the store, the ice cream parlor], so of course, the kid doesn't stop the bad behavior.
Every generation has said the "next" generation is the downfall of society, when people stopped family farms and moved to cities things were ruined, when factory workers became less relevant things were ruined. Now it's technology that is ruining things. I saw a post just today on Facebook about the attention spans of kids, how awful they are and blah blah blah. The honest truth is those complaining just are unwilling to see how the new world is operating, or how things are adapting. Kids are different, society is different. Essentially it's a group of people who is unwilling and unable to cope with the rapid change of society. Just because you were raised a certain way, or believe a certain way doesn't mean the rest of the world has to. People can either whine about it or learn to live in the new society. Or you can sit there and talk about "back in my day" and be a insufferable and lonely person.