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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Child of the X typically means that you have childhood memories of X.  So it is not when you were born, but when your childhood memories harken back to.[/quote]

That's what I always thought.

I asked my sister and she said the opposite. You are a "child of..." the decade in which you were born. Makes no sense to me.

My earliest memory is 1988 when I was almost 6. Black Monday happened the previous fall, which I didn't understand or know about, but I remember my dad losing his job. During the spring of '88, my dad left WV after being unsuccessful in finding work for 7 months. My mom, siblings, and I stayed behind. My dad had bumped into a friend who was back in WV for a funeral. He said he was living and working in VA and he was sure he could get my dad a job. He did and a week later my dad left WV for VA. I vividly remember a lot of that time because I missed my dad but was also excited because I got to talk to him on the phone, which I thought was the coolest thing ever since I had never talked on the phone to anyone. I also remember eating so, so, so much spaghetti for dinner because my mom's hours at work were cut and she had to stretch the money even more. It's probably why I hate pasta! I also remember our eventual move to VA and the first night in our new house in VA.

Anything else from the 80s is a blur to me. Sporadic memories of hurting myself playing or attending a party at a relative's house, but not vivid memories. I consider myself a child of the 90s. [/quote]

PP you are responding do.  Being described by the decade that you were born into doesn't make sense.  Children born at the end of a decade will have zero memories of that decade.  Children born in the early years of a decade will remember some or much of that decade.   Children born in the early years of a decade have much more in common with children born at the end of the previous decade than they do with the children born at the end of the decade of their birth.  Defining demographics by birth doesn't really serve much of a purpose.  Defining demographics based on commonalities makes much more sense.[/quote]

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