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To: TKDietz

Again, yes you can argue that some law changes were done by the parents... but your parents didn't run with Roe and use it as birth control... they didn't run with no fault and divorce at rates higher than anywhere else in the world.

Your parents weren't divorcing at record rates or thinking latch key parenting was a good thing... etc etc etc.

Boomers have been marketed to and pandered too their entire lives in terms of being told they are something special... hell even now as you start retiring Madison Avenue continues to play to your self dillusions of being something better than all of human history before... Forget which fund companies running that bunch of hooey.. but it still happens today.

The fact is, you still have a chance to end strong... unfortunately though, those us following up behind you, aren't holding our breath.

You were handed a moment of COMPLETE AND ABSOLUTE MORAL CLARITY on 9/11 and look where we are 5 years later.

Your parents would not be crying the Nazi's need to be understood and the war in Italy is not part of the war against them... or against the Empirial Japanese... They wouldn't be playing unabashed politics with the war for western civilization... yet your generation by and large can't seem to morally distinguish between a terrorist group intentionally targeting civilians and civilian deaths when a nation state targets terrorist operations.

Now, I know not all of your generation feels that way, and much of folks on FR would not... but of your generation there is a huge amount who do... because they have made relavatism thier view of choice, and it has indeed festered during your adult lives.

Divorce is ok, who cares if it screws up the kids, its better than me possibly having to compromise.

There is a reason that study after study has shown by and large Boomers kids are generally more conservative than their parents... We've grown up in the world of Dr. Spock and Feel Goodism and had to deal with societal aftermath of it.

You can lay claim that your generation wasn't the one passing the laws.. but your generation certainly did little to NOTHING to end them.. in fact, if anything they were embraced across the board.

Mothers entered the workplace abandoning their children to puppy factory day care because, hey, actually investing time in your children.. well we can't have that... that's a complete waste of our talents. And who cares if divorce and daddys not around for my daughter.... it won't hurt her any... or my son... etc etc etc...

Grotesquely higher drug use by teens and young adults is the absolute legacy of the boomers... You know damned well few of your generation have looked your parents in the eye, and said "Yea, but you did it".... My generation can't say the same.

When it was time to be adults, and yes 18 is adults, many just said, hey its legal, that means its OK... I don't agree with some of the things your parents did with the law, but your generations willing acceptance of it and even embracing of it is not your parents fault. Eventually the children leave the nest, they are exposed to things as ADULTS and even if they can be done, should not be done... and in many areas the boomer generation didn't even hesitate to do it, without questioning whether they should.



225 posted on 09/07/2006 1:59:42 PM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: HamiltonJay
Hamilton, I'm not a Baby Boomer. Fortunately I was born a few months too late to be lumped in with those you blame for all the world's problems. Lucky me.
294 posted on 09/07/2006 2:45:36 PM PDT by TKDietz (")
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