Your generation came of age during a great economy. You forgot Jimmy Carter? By then we had a house and Hubby had to drive for work, a company vehicle, we didn't own a car of our own.
And your generation took the birth control pill Nobody that I knew used the pill. It had side affects back then.
and for a short while legitimately had twice the earning power of the prior generations. I wish.
That worked for a while until all the women in the workforce pushed wages down. That became a necessity in cities. I lived in suburbs/rural area and the Moms were stay-at home Moms. And no, women were not paid less although libs love to push that lie. How many male secretaries were there? Waitresses? Nurses? Teachers? etc.
Now two incomes is a sad necessity for most young families. That depends on what they're buying.
Your generation also went wild on unconventional behavior. Right and wrong was muddled. You believed what the press was pushing? They weren't anymore truthful back then than they are now. Yes, they can and did influence future behavior.
Divorce became commonplace in the 70s and latch key kids became a real thing. Yup. The press and culture convinced women to "find themselves". The feminist movement did a lot of damage, pushed by the press and Hollywood.
I recall being a teenager (I was born in 1970) listening to Boomers being exasperated with their children not listening to them. As a smart mouth teen I would ask them if they would ever behave like this when they were young and they would almost always look at me like I was the most stupid person in the world. They would say of course not, my parents would have killed me. Then I would give them the look like, well why don’t you do the same. And suddenly they looked rather small.My oldest came home from school spouting that I couldn't spank him anymore because he could have me arrested. He was in 2nd grade. He also told me that his teacher said to throw my cigarettes in the toilet....he did and got spanked. I handed him the phone to turn me in and he hung it up.
You blame a lot on "Boomers" without taking into account the power of Hollywood and the press, even the schools. It's called manipulation and it still works today, you know, like TikTok posts......
Cherry please don’t take what I say personal to you. Obviously there are exceptions when you generalize.
I had Boomer parents and my friends growing up mostly had boomer parents. My experience is that they were definitely different from their own parents generation. And of course not everyone of them.
THIS is just what this stinking leftist government actually wants. Generations pitted against each other, blaming the other for all of its problems and not realizing that leftist NWO Government caused it all.
The only thing I can say to any generational member is that no one person in any generation is the cause of your problem(s).
At best, one can only mitigate their options by making good choices - in actually putting the meme “TINSTAAFL” into the options matrix.