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There's a book called "The Fourth Turning" that explains it very well. It sure opened my eyes.

Just yesterday my mom asked how I turned out so conservative with such ol'fashioned values. (I'm 34) I told her that the majority of the boomers grew up in two-parent households with a SAHM and the majority of us Gen Xers were latch-key kids. We knew from first-hand experience how it hurt us, p*ssed us off, and made us determined not to raise our kids in the same dysfunctional manner. The Boomers chose to believe the lie that all their kids needed was a little "quality time" and we would be fine.

When I was 19 I read an article somewhere that shifted my paradigm in just ten minutes. It stated that most girls lost their virginity between the hours of 3:00 and 5:00 PM, on weekdays, in their own bedrooms. The reasoning was obvious and I wondered how many teenage troubles began in those two precious hours. Everything fell into place and I vowed to be a SAHM until my kids left my home.

Sorry about the rant, but I'm irritated that my husband and I can't retire until we're 70 because the Leach Generation will put such a burden on Social Security. (That is assuming that the whole system doesn't implode by that time.) How can they not understand how this burden is going to effect their children? How can they not care how this will suck into their own grand children's college? Heck, they didn't care about us when they were raising us. Why should I expect them to give a crap now?

Oh, and I'm also irritated that they aborted a few million of us. Those young workers' taxes would've come in handy now to help offset the burden of the "Me" generation's retirement.

(And, yes, I know that there are many noble Boomers who never thought this way. They can ignore my rant as I'm not speaking of them.)

Great book. Nice rant. I agree with just about everything you said, except my parents are from the "Silent Generation" or something like that, the ones right before the Boomers--born at the tail-end of the depression, too young to fight in WWII.

My mom was a SAHM until I went to kindergarten. But even after that she worked as a RN at the local school, so her hours were similar to ours.

They just celebrated their 40th Anniversary a couple days ago. :)

How can they not understand how this burden is going to effect their children? How can they not care how this will suck into their own grand children's college?

I'm still trying to figure out how the "Greatest Generation" didn't seem to have a clue what their "New Deal" was going to do to every generation to come.