Controversial take: Boomers are/were the worst parents in history

They were overwhelmingly selfish, abusive (physically, emotionally), and often just absent, leaving the Millennials (their kids) to live as latchkey kids. Even with their children now being adults, they show the same awful personality traits with them as they did when their children were young. So nothing is redeemable. They're still just awful.

Obligatory disclaimer: of course not all Boomers were this way. I am speaking in terms of the general majority rule.

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ArtieKat · M

I'm not a parent but I don't recognise many of your claims. The biggest mistake of most of my fellow-boomers as parents was to want to be friends with their kids rather than the authoritarians our parents (in the main) had been, and to dress the same. Perhaps it was physical abuse to make them listen to our music - Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull.... just a few of the bands members of our grandkids generation willingly listen to even now - but who knows....

NativePortlander1970

@ArtieKat My Grandfather, who was a WW II era Army Air Corps Vet, bot no combat experience, did acknowledge that a lot of the Boomers had strict disciplinarian fathers that did have combat experience, that that did have a lot of negative effects on them while growing up.

ArtieKat · M

@NativePortlander1970 Sounds about right