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>Why do you think these changes happened at this point in history and no other?
Well, everything can be boiled down to da jooz, but that's just the main group of interest here at work.
Why it all worked is another question.
For one, after the two World Wars there was a very nice environment for societal changes not seen in centuries; two immense wars of unprecedented and unseen scale recently ended, they brought lots of destruction which made room for growth, the then dominant conservative and authoritative political ideologies (Fascism, nazism, any form of absolutism) lost the war thus were the automatic bad guys, lots of scientific advancements due to coincidental in-war discoveries, but most of all a very VERY promising future of a long-lasting peace.
Long lasting peace means no need for men to draft nor defend their home country.
>But the Cold War!
Nobody was going to fire a nuke, and everybody knew that.
Besides we still have an army but it's not needed as direly as say…Germans crossing your borders for a überraschungsanschluss.
Now, you got no need for an instant army, and former absolutist ideologies lost the war, so you can push societal reforms now.
The climate was there unlike any in history.
>Ah I think I misunderstood you there I thought you were talking about kids as in cohabitating/living with parents.
You crazy mate? I'm of the opinion that when a man isn't married he has no real reason to leave their parental house and it has been that way for a looonggg time.