Eugenia highlights three key cuktural changes in the American South: firts the family dinner has ceased to be sacred, routine occasion and has become an occasional, quick meal, as children snack and mothers work or have so many activities that they can no longer gather at the table as they once sid. Second, youth dating norms have become more flexible, today teenagers go out earlier, to infomal places like shopping malls, with less strict curfews and supervision than in Hartle's time, when they couldn't go out until they were sixteen and their arents imosed rigid schedules. Finally, the way young people adress their elders has changed radically, where formal titles were once used, young people now call adults by their first names, reflecting a closer, less hierarchical relationship.