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There is NO WAY I would've said that about my grandparents OR parents.

Unlike previous generations, many Gen Xers do not share any great sense of connection or loyalty to the Boomers. It'll be hard for the aging boomers as a group to demand what it is that at least half of their children have not already been given in turn.

Many boomers (not all) NEVER grew up, and never learned that there were needs other than their own, even those of their own children. The whole world is only there to serve their own sense of self-worth and validation. Anything else, be damned! They tend to be selfish, absent, self-absorbed, me, me, me, with no sense of responsibility, and a general incapacity to ever admit doing anything wrong. Far too many of the boomers failed as parents, which is why today so many Gen Xers believe that they succeeded in SPITE of their parents, and not because of them.

Me, personally, I just can't wait until all the boomers start retiring from academia and the universities. The boomers have succeeded in ruining them.