"People in 50's, 60's now were post war children - many of whom didn't have the parental support they needed as their own parents were recovering from ravages of war and had not much to invest in their DC emotionally..."
Ha, fucking, ha! My mother, who had a truly fascinating job working in Intelligence (she would not speak of her duties relating to the D-Day Landings until 30 years later) always said that the war was an amazingly liberating experience. Without it, middle class girls from her sort of background would have been expected to toy with a secretarial job before settling down to wait hand and foot on the men they married. Instead, she had the freedom to develop as her own person AND use her brains and skill working towards victory.
If anything, quite a lot of us who qualify (broadly) as Baby Boomers actually had it all. Certainly in our house, food was plentiful and my mother almost over-compensated for the years she'd spent on rations. Education was prized and I was encouraged to be independent.
Now it may be that there are bitter, difficult women in their 50s and 60s but I suspect they've always been like this. Cod psychology about the war doesn't explain away their general contrariness of lack of social skills and neither, necessarily, does the menopause since this is a condition that shouldn't be used to justify unacceptable behaviour.