I don't know about the parent, but I was a teenager back in the 90s, and back then when the wall fell and the USSR collapsed, we thought all the ugliness of the

I don't know about the parent, but I was a teenager back in the 90s, and back then when the wall fell and the USSR collapsed, we thought all the ugliness of the 20th century, two world wars and a cold war, were all behind us and that we could look forward to lifetimes of relative peace, perhaps with some relatively small conflicts here and there (such as the Gulf War). It turns out the 90s was basically western civilization's peak.