'the cool, grown-up contempt many of today’s young feel for their babyish, spoiled, Sixties-generation parents.'
The 'spoilt boomer' myth is largely the creation of columnists such as Peter, who are in the small minority of UK baby boomers who were upper middle class and university educated. The vast majority of my generation left school at 15 or 16 and knuckled down to an apprenticeship or trade course rather than being drug-addled campus Marxist activists.
Spoilt? For crying out loud, UK boomers were born into post-war austerity! Rationing still existed until 1954 when I appeared. Lots of ordinary people didn't even indoor loos! There were housing shortages (possibly not unrelated to the recent blitz). Cars and TV sets were still luxury items in the 50s and early 60s.
Oh, and our World War 2 era parents and teachers were mostly firm disciplinarians who smacked and caned. Far from being 'babyish' , boomer youngsters were expected to be self-sufficient and self-disciplined.