How would this work? Just like when I was a kid and had the English translation under the Latin in my missal we could have the New English translation with the Understandable English translation under that. That way we could follow along like in the old days while the old ladies pray the Rosary. Worked before.

Over 90% of Catholics reject the Church teaching on contraception. Conservatives say that doesn't matter, truth is truth. But the truth is that many Catholics hold on out of loyalty to their faith

What faith are you talking about? Catholic faith requires acceptance of Catholic doctrine because it is a fundamental tenet of Catholicism that the Catholic Church is a sure guide. If you reject the Church's authority to teach then you reject the Catholic faith itself.

As a Catechist Gr7+8 I assure that I teach the faith essentials, try to imbue our loving relationship with God, foster an appreciation for the renewals of Vatican II and pray that, like Manna from Heaven, something sticks ... even if like dew. I do notice, however, the more removed from real speak the words and actions seem the less vital and relevant they become.

Children are savvy enough to pick up on phony mumbo-jumbo when they see or hear it. Like canaries in a cave, their observable indifference is telling signal to me that something is being 'lost in the translation'. I believe that this sort of turning back is opposite, backwards futile blather from true conversion, communion and becoming All In All Body of Christ - bearer of the Good News.

I continue to have joy and hope in the reforms promulgated by Vat II, guided by the Holy Spirit; and also, I carry sadness tinged with anxiety regarding how some still fail to see and need to deride.

Go ahead, blame the parents, parents like us who attend Sunday Mass, Holy Days of Obligation, discuss the Gospel, say Grace before meals and the Hail Mary before car trips, send our kids to religious ed and bible camp, and still struggle to get our teenagers to mass. You are wrong about our Catechesis. Both of us attended Catholic schools in very traditional parishes and prayed the Rosary with our families. Mom cooked for priests, Dad remembers the Latin Mass and was an altar boy for ten years. We are talking 16 and up teens here, young men who in our grandparent's generation would be off to work. What do you want us to do, punish them, ground them? I know. We should have gone to a traditionalist Latin parish, home schooled and kept all modern media out of our home. Popular culture is the Culture of Death. Our parents probably shouldn't have danced the jitterbug or listened to Benny Goodman. Your solution is a return to 1953. Do you think most Catholics who still attend weekly mass will go for that? How small and pure do you want to go? As far as Protestants, the Catholics I know who jumped ship and joined Evangelical churches all talk about how more welcoming they are than their old parishes. I hear them. I've seen the scowls from pew huggers when you want to seat your family past them, the heads turning when our kids were small and squirmy. I guess we should have smacked them. Yeah, looking back I can see we were pretty crappy parents. Never mind.

wsxyz is of course spot on in the response. The reluctance of the kids is a reflection perhaps of a lack of ferver in the parents. The parents did not get the Catechesis they deserved either.
You cannot give what you do not have. All of that is not a reason to stop trying to repair the abuses of the past. You have to start somewhere and if they change Churches, maybe when they look back in a few years they will like the improvements they see and return.
" they may all jump ship and become Protestants"
Well they should not expect anything easier there. My Protestant friends spend more time at services and actually are far better read than many of my Catholic friends.