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Yeah everybody always skips right over Gen X ... The NYT covered divorce in a better article with a better graph four years ago[1]. The life lesson here is tha
by romed 8y ago
Yeah everybody always skips right over Gen X ... The NYT covered divorce in a better article with a better graph four years ago[1].
The life lesson here is that the things Boomers say are going to happen to other generations are actually going to happen to them instead. They said we were all getting divorced but that was them not us. They said that video games were going to rot our brains but in reality it was them and Fox News, not us and Nintendo. And on and on.
1: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/02/upshot/the-divorce-surge-is-over-but-the-myth-lives-on.html https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/02/upshot/the-divorce-surge-...
- maxfurman 8y agoWell said.
- naravara 8y agoI think a lot of that stuff wasn't things Boomers worried about so much as things Boomers' parents worried about. And they were right. And then the generation after looked at the results of that and decided to go nowhere near it.
- MisterOctober 8y agoYep! it's funny - I've been feeling some disgust and resentment toward the behavior of my parents' generation for some time, and felt like I was kind of alone in that until I saw Bruce Gibney's recent book [and accompanying NPR interview on] 'Generation of Sociopaths,' which coherently makes it clear that, well, there are other folks who feel the same way.
- Bizarro 8y agoThey said that video games were going to rot our brains but in reality it was them and Fox News.. and MSNBC, CNN, the NYT, and on and on.
- sharkmerry 8y agoThe first chart on that page seems to show that the divorce rate for 2000's is in line with all the other decades at that # years of marriage.
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