Anyway, I agree with you on the Baby Boomer era, it ran from 1946 on up to about 1965. Some might put the end of the era at 1964, others as late as 1967, but I don't consider them wrong.
What is indisputable however is that it began in 1946 when all the GI's came home from the war and well, started procreating in a major way.
I was born in 1962 which puts me squarely in the tail end of that Boomer generation.
Even so, I did not grow up with a microwave. Or a dishwasher. Or even a color TV until I was at least 10 years old or so. And it wasn't because we were poor, it just wasn't common to have those items through most of the 1970s. I didn't have a microwave or dishwasher until I had my own place when I was in my 20s.
I think the article is describing a later generation than the Boomers.
I posted earlier that I think the headline was awkward. They meant the children of Boomers (the latchkey kids) who learned Boomer traits from their parents.
The Boomers were the original two-working-parents generation, making their kids first latchkey children. That's why the references to technology (like microwave ovens) are one generation off. It wasn't the Boomers themselves who were latchkeys because their mothers stayed home when their fathers went back to work after the war.
Fortunately for the kids, they had their Boomer parents and their WWII grandparents as role models of individual independence.
It's too bad that the latchkeys didn't pass those traits onto their own children.
-PJ