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Okay. Let me rephrase. Whatever Gen-X,Y,Z...ad nauseum teenagers of the last thirty plus years for the most part do not know what it is like to live without. Teenage angst is overated.

As far as grandparents go, my grandfather on my mothers side ran a family farm when he was not working in a foundry. My paternal grandfather worked in a mill. Both of my grand mothers raised eleven kids between them, neither worked outside of the home.

Many in Generation X (people old enough to remember the Cold War but not old enough to remember the height of the Vietnam War) certainly didn't have to deal with economic hardships- most came of age during the greatest economic recovery in US history. They didn't have to deal with foreign threats- they saw America triumph in the Cold War. But there were two fundamental things many in Gen-X did have to do without: God and family. Gen-X was the first generation in a very long time to raised in an environment where God was ignored and family was non-existent.