I am at the tail end of the baby boom generation, growing up in the 60s and 70s. My parents’ families both lost everything in the Great Depression, grew up poor and then went to war (my father and maternal uncle both served in the Navy in WWII). I was fortunate to grow up with a father who could do just about anything when it came to home repairs and who made sure that I could too. If I wanted something, I had to work for it. If I broke something, I had to fix it, with my father showing me what to do, but making me do it. I tried to teach my millennial children to be self sufficient just like I was raised.
IMHO, it was the early boomers (born in the late 1940s) who started the problem. Their parents grew up in the Depression, came home from WWII, immediately started families, and tried to give their kids everything that they did not have. Their pampered kids became hippies, waited for their parents to die off so they could inherit and spend the rest of their money, and raised generation-x and millennial kids who have no idea how to do anything for themselves. These are the socialists out campaigning for Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
“I am at the tail end of the baby boom generation, growing up in the 60s and 70s. My parents’ families both lost everything in the Great Depression, grew up poor and then went to war———”
Most tail end Boomers were not born to the Greatest Generation-———same work ethic,though.
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