RSSPeople somehow keep forgetting the Silent Generation in this discussion. Most Gen X’ers had Silent Generation parents. So if Gen X had problems with their parents or how they were raised, it wasn’t the Boomers that raised them, in most cases.
My own parents are Boomers and I’m an Xennial or early Gen Y. The only Boomers who had Gen X children were early Boomers who married very young and had children very early. Most of the Boomer’s offspring are Gen Y.
The latchkey kid phenomenon might have happened to Gen X first, but it didn’t end with them. It continued with Gen Y and even Gen Z. It’s a societal problem.
If you look into the Silents, I think you’ll find they foreshadowed the Boomers in a lot of ways. The Silents were the brains and intellectual impetus behind the 60s movements that the Boomers were largely just followers to.
This is an interesting point. But then you could argue the boomers were the brains and intellectual impetus to the decadence and depravity of the 1970s.
If you look into the Silents, I think you’ll find they foreshadowed the Boomers in a lot of ways. The Silents were the brains and intellectual impetus behind the 60s movements