You have to remember that Gen-Xers as a whole have been dumped on by their parents. This is why many feel no responsibility for their parents (ie divorce, mutliple marriages, mom working outside of the home etc.), some would say that the boomers that lived this sort of lifestyle are reaping what the sewed in their children. JMO. Please note however I will step up and take care of my mother although she sucked as a mom.
My sister and I are 9 years apart. I was born in '51. She was born in '61. When I was growing up, there was next to none of the above. When I went away to college in 1970, I remember my little sister telling me that our parents seemed to be the only ones who weren't divorced. Most of the above problems began in the mid-sixties - after Betty Friedan and "The Feminine Mystique."