Anyone who paints folks with a broad brush (especially because of the year in which they happened to be born) makes a mistake.
There are good boomer parents and bad boomer parents. Frankly, most of the parents I see out and about today seem to be letting their kiddies run the show. That's not what I consider good parenting, but your mileage may vary.
susie
Please do not give me that tired 'you can't paint with a broad brush' schtick here. Of course there are exceptions. But we make fun of DU every day, and I don't see a lot of people saying we shouldn't paint them with a broad brush. Saying 'boomer parenting' is speaking generally, not specifically. I'm sure some of your best friends are boomers and they rock, and I know some Gen Xers suck as parents.
But as to the notion that most parents are letting their kiddies run the show, I think it depends on where you go, too. Don't forget that the parents you see right now, as the last of Gen X and the start of the Millenials, are likely to be indicative of how Millenials will parent (think Silent Generation--then think, "Oh, crap!"). But I think there is no question that divorced parenting is not as good as married parenting, that permissive parenting is not as good as REAL parenting, that being a friend to your child is not being a parent, and all these negative practices are much more prevalent in the Boomer parents whence they came from than the Gen X parents who lived through that sort of parenting.