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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Still doesn't give you license to insult a whole generation.[/quote]

And yet Boomers routinely use anecdotes to generalize about and insult other generations?  See, e.g., any discussion about Millennials in the workplace.

I realize that multiple anecdotes =/= data, but I have a number of friends whose Boomer parents are detached grandparents who are more concerned with their own lives and social activities than their grandchildren.  Maybe this is just my/our misfortune, and maybe the difference is divorced vs. non-divorced Boomers, but possibly you should consider that your experience as devoted Boomer grandparents is the outlier, not mine.   
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I’m sorry but I have to agree. The boomers were a real something of a generation. I don’t think it’s the “waited to have kids” thing; I had my first at 30 so not super young but I didn’t have my first ten years later, either. It’s not the polite thing to say, [b]but I think the massive damage that the Greatest Generation had (born into or just after the Flu Pandemic, the Depression and then the world war) really did a number on the boomers. [/b]In general, obviously, as not all of them emerged with damage, but I just think it’s a generational thing. [/quote]

The Greatest Generation had it really rough in their younger years, so when they had kids of their own (Boomers) they typically excessively doted on them and spoiled them.   For some Boomers, this may have given them a solid foundation to also be caring and generous.   But for other Boomers (like my parents and most of the Boomers I know) it made them selfish and self centered.  "It's all about me" is a motto my parents, ILs, and other I know follow.[/quote]

HAHAHAHAHA

I've never seen a group of people more self-absorbed in my life than the women of DCUM!  The irony.
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