Something has happened in the last century and it is very disturbing.
I have in possession a book entitled Sex Training in the Home. It was published in the very early 20th century. Though secular, it reads like a manual published by the Church. This was aimed helping fathers and mothers raise respectable and modest children.
After WWII everything seems to be garbage.
The trend seems to be reflected in the music as well. Popular music from the early 20th century, though not at a Catholic ideal, still produces some catchy, even if a little quaint and sentimental, songs (Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, Stardust, Beautiful Ohio, 3 o'Clock in the Morning, Why do I love you?, Autumn Nocturne, etc).
After WWII American music turned to filthy or nonsensical lyrics set to a meaningless and mediocre "beat" (this just shows how uncivilized modern music lovers are - they require that a metronome that is louder than the actual music continually keep time for them - they complain that there is no "beat" in "classical music" and fail to realize that enjoying a piece of music that has been perfected precludes listening to it with a metronomic beat which should be confined to practice, or if necessary in performance, kept completely visual) coupled with boring musical themes.
s2srea's comment is very interesting and reminiscent of what one can learn from an ancient Confucian primer for young children, the 3 character Classic.
http://ctext.org/three-character-classicFrom the first stanza:
Men at their birth
are naturally good.
Their natures are much the same;
their habits become widely different.
If foolishly there is no teaching,
the nature will deteriorate.
The right way in teaching
is to attach the utmost importance in thoroughness.
It was the constant drilling of texts like this, the Classic of Filial Piety, and the stoires of the 24 filial exemplars that made ancient Chinese children be known as the most polite children in the entire world.
Even though the majority of the populace of ancient China was illiterate, the oral tranmission of these writings and stories instilled in the soul a strong basis of the natural law.
When a child grows up being told stories like these:
http://anthro.ucsd.edu/~dkjordan/chin/shiaw/xiaocontents.htmlat bed-time he will be very different than today's children who are pounded by garbage or just nonsense in story books and television.