The genuinely sad aspect is the couple of Xers who laid their tragic childhoods out for all to see then use their misfortunate parentage to condemn anyone their parents' age.
Nope! I have boomers parents and I can say in raising me they did the best they could and overall while not perfect by a long shot they were darn good and I know they will be there for me no matter what. Nothing but praise here about the way my parents raised me. However I know I am the expection to the rule.
My "Hostility" towards the baby boomers comes from what other baby boomer parents did to their kids and the over all big net negative effect the baby boomers had and continue to have on my country.
I was born in 1970 so there was a split between kids my age that had parents that were baby boomers and kids that had parents that were of the silient generation. The difference between the two was easily seen. The baby boomer parents were never around and lot of the time their kids were being raised by their grandparents for they were out doing their own thing and couldn't be bothered. At "Kiddie" functions before I knew any better I used to feel a little weird because it always seemed that my parents were always so much younger than the other kid's parents, Of course the reason for this was because the parents of kids my age who were baby boomers my parents age or younger couldn't be bothered doing anything with or for their kids.