You know, I just wanted to point out that those of you who are familiar with "The Stanford Prison Experiment," it occurred in 1971 and also resulted to a lot of psychological and some physical abuse of people, however children were not involved. The reason I am pointing this out is that they are a year apart and both driven by the same sort of notion of human experimentation and could never occur with today's regulations if it were in proper knowledge of the public. It appears that during this time period the common attitude of society was that scientists and specialists and psychologists ,etc, were willing to put people at risk. I think back then they did not know as much about emotional/psychological impact of things as we do now and because of that there are a lot of studies dated during this time period. I think people of the age group 37-46 can relate to this in a lot of ways that they might have been mistreated by their parents whom didn't seem aware of the effects of their actions, I'd say people in this age group are MOST LIKELY to feel the immediate effect of these attitudes we see reflected in this study. The parents are from the generation born about 1945-1953, so they grew up in a generation which sort of encouraged to listen to authority blindly- no questioning things, and THEIR parents, the grandparents, were raising them with traditional male/female gender roles. So when the 1970's babies were young the attitudes of the baby boomers, I think, was responsible for allowing these types of beliefs to go over their head and to accept authority and dangerous experiments so easily because the general public was not used to questioning the authority of things and also did not know the harms that could come from it.
I assume part of the reason there are so many restrictions and regulations now is that the ones who had these extremist attitudes forced on them, sometimes coined "Generation X" has rebelled from these points of views and seen the wrongness and mistakes in them and have started to correct that. This least to the more recent generation born in the 1980s-present, "New Boomers" the MOST LIBERAL OF ALL because they are the furthest from the conservative and extreme views of "Lucky Few" generation and "Baby Boomers" who have kind of ignored/had no knowledge of emotional/psychological wellbeing and development.
In regards to this video....
I think many people of that time period suffered similar fates. Perhaps not as extreme ones, but I think people growing up in that era might be able to relate to those attitudes and you either embraced them or rejected them. I think that in today's society, such shunning and trying to turn gay to straight is mostly seen as outrageous and ridiculous....even though religion is dominant in the United States and elsewhere, it seems that a lot of Christian talk shows I've been listening to lately acknowledge that they don't think homosexuality is a choice but instead of succumbing to it you should just not indulge in homosexual relations and you can be saved [and other things to that effect]. So I think that even though there are extremist groups like the researcher's group, for the most part, even the Christians and other religious denominations are admitting they don't think it's a choice but still trying to salvage the textual beliefs in other ways.
