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In a world where baby boomers (I forgot the politically neutral term, sorry) emotionally neglected their children, most turned to various media such as tv and i

• stopagephobia 4y ago
  The polite term is People of Age or PoA for short. I appreciate your caring enough to ask!
• drekipus 4y ago
  It's a tradition that's continued with YouTube replacing tv and Netflix with movies. My sister has 3 kids under 10. Every day they watch at least 3 movies, some of them atleast presentable as childlike learning, the others are just "whatever Netflix puts on"
  • Sharlin 4y ago
    Jesus. We didn't even have a VCR when I and my siblings were under 10. Movies were maybe once or twice a week thing.
• hirvi74 4y ago
  Perhaps some of issues with emotional management expectations, roles models, etc. can be placed on baby boomers, but not solely for their parenting style. From what I have gathered over my life, it seems like many of the parents of baby boomers were far worse parents than the parents many baby boomers eventually became. I would argue the most damage has come from the near complete and utter erosion of social communities. As the saying goes, "It takes a village [community] to raise a child." I can't name a role model in my community. In fact, I have no community that I can access without the Internet. We went from "Survive together; thrive together" to "every man for himself" way too rapidly.