Note that these changes paralleled the decline in the status of BSA. I really don't understand this change - as a boy it seemed to me that the BSA simply lost respect for the scouts, changing from treating them like young men to treating them like children.
Yes. I was in the Cub Scouts in the early 80s and later the Boy Scouts. My fondest memories were the camping trips and the outdoor skills we learned on them. Then at some point they stopped doing them and it simply became a social event for the parents (they'd rent out a large meeting hall and have it catered while just letting the scouts run around and occupy themselves), I quit around that time.
