GanglyKhan posted...
Parenting is kind of a fresh concept when you think about it. Not "keeping a child alive for 18 years" but
parenting.
HUGE generalizations incoming:
Gen Z got screwed over because millenials were largely spoiled and lived care free lives, they did not pick up on many practical skills as a result. Their Gen X parents did this because they valued individuality and freedom after being raised (and screwed over) by a boomer generation that was largely about discipline and order, since they were raised by parents who knew about untold horrors of war and disease, and so they were focused on simply getting by in life.
The parents of boomers (who I am sure also have a generational title) were literally living in an era where people were still cranking out huge families because children still died in infancy and childhood in frequent occasion, or you simply needed that many children to run the farm, woodshop, butcher, etc; Childhood was survival to these people.
The boomers were the first generation for centuries and centuries to see an incredibly massive shift in how they viewed and treated their own children, nothing like that had ever been seen before, at least not in America. We're still seeing the effects of it today as a result and honestly, as much as I do like to riff on Gen Z, I feel sorry for them. I feel sorry for the boomers and everyone since too, this is all new stuff, nobody really knows what they're doing.
The "nameless generation" you speak of, were titled the silent generation. And Boomers are the 1st generation in the last 200 years, that siphoned wealth both from their parents and their children. The most selfish generation, in a 100 years hands down. But that being said. Millenials and Gen Z got screwed by their choices, and lack of accountability.
It's eay to never grow up if you never take on real responsibilities, and instead bury your head into phones and internet all day long.