Interesting. I was born in 78 and my wife in 82 and the differences feel significant at times. Of course I grew up much, much faster than she did. :-)
I was born in 65 and my wife in 70 and she has little memories of the economic doldrums of the dreary 70’s. She has no memories of the Vietnam war or the civil rights movement and protests. My first vivid memories are of the 1969 moon landing and being in Alabama with my grandparents visiting family and a march/riot in progress just down the road from us. Gas lines, hate of the military and police, she doesn’t remember any of it.
My kids are all Z’s and all have turned out conservative so far and I get lots of questions of how things were when I was a kid growing up. They can’t conceive of the Cold War and how we grew up knowing everything you knew could end in 30 minutes if the US/USSR went nuclear in a war. What did you do was a question I got from them? I said you just lived your life and hoped it wouldn’t happen, there was nothing you could do about it other than elect a strong president, what good would have done to worry about it-none.
All three of them worked at part time jobs while in high school, it was expected of them as well as doing well in school. One’s a rookie cop, one’s in nursing school and the other just started college. My sister and all my brothers except for one have Z generation kids and all of them worked in high school and are in college or graduated and working. One is a pharmacist, one a SeaBee with a college degree and the rest are in college. All save the one brother raised their kids in a traditional home and all turned out conservative.
The one brother who married a kook and divorced has three daughters, no stability in their lives living with their leftist mom. All Z’s, all bat crap crazy leftist who now live with their Dad finally, my brother who didn’t get custody in the divorce, but paid all the bills. BLM, ANTIFA, Xanax, counseling, threats of suicide, fist fights in their 20’s, all this from a liberal parent being in charge of these Z’s. He told them last week, you’re all past 18 and I’m tired of you behaving like savages, if you don’t change quickly I’m kicking you out. Liberals and Z’s equal a disastrous outcome and what’s happening in the streets shows the damage liberalism causes on children!