Please do not give me that tired 'you can't paint with a broad brush' schtick here. Of course there are exceptions. But we make fun of DU every day, and I don't see a lot of people saying we shouldn't paint them with a broad brush. Saying 'boomer parenting' is speaking generally, not specifically. I'm sure some of your best friends are boomers and they rock, and I know some Gen Xers suck as parents.
But as to the notion that most parents are letting their kiddies run the show, I think it depends on where you go, too. Don't forget that the parents you see right now, as the last of Gen X and the start of the Millenials, are likely to be indicative of how Millenials will parent (think Silent Generation--then think, "Oh, crap!"). But I think there is no question that divorced parenting is not as good as married parenting, that permissive parenting is not as good as REAL parenting, that being a friend to your child is not being a parent, and all these negative practices are much more prevalent in the Boomer parents whence they came from than the Gen X parents who lived through that sort of parenting.
I don't think it's up to you to dictate what tired old cliches I use! :)
susie
Let's not pat ourselves on the back too much regarding what wonderful parents we are- one third of all babies are born out of wedlock, and that is largely from Gen Xers and older Gen Yers. Divorce and abortion rates may have started to level off and decline in our generation, but our ancestors would still be shocked at the sexual immorality that we take for granted.