Every generation thinks it's not only unique, but the worst. I remember a front page article in the Boston Globe from 1968 that began with a quote attributed to Socrates and that sounded just like Republican criticism of Vietnam War protesters. The more things change, the more they stay the same. One parent at the above-mentioned meeting said we don't have leaders to emulate like other generations did. No generation thinks they have leadership until the leaders die.
Every generation goes through similar problems.
According to studies done at Bar Ilan University, the national religious community has maintained a loss rate of twenty to twenty-five percent of its youth since the beginning of the State. Those are cold numbers, unless they represent your own children. A certain amount of distancing from parents is a normal, if not necessary, part of growing up. Some guidelines come from the story of Korach's rebellion in the Book of Numbers. Korach and his cohorts were by all accounts mutineers.