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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Colonelmustardseed · 36-40

Makes me wonder how they themselves were treated as kids. Were they giving the less awful version of what they received? Both my parents treated us all horribly, but I know their parents and grandparents hurt them severely. They took “less abusive” as “treating kids well.”

DearAmbellina2113 · 41-45, F

@Colonelmustardseed that certainly didn't apply to my mother. She was spoiled rotten by her parents and had no excuse for her own method of parenting toward her own kids.

NativePortlander1970

@Colonelmustardseed Read my own reply to ArtieKat.

Colonelmustardseed · 36-40

@NativePortlander1970 Yeah. I wonder how many of that group suffered from PTSD before anyone even knew what that was; and the disconnect that must have caused them as parents to their boomer children.

NativePortlander1970

@Colonelmustardseed It was a major disconnect, the abuse caused by their WW II combat vet parents was horrendous, causing their rebellion on a massive scale with the Hippy movement, as well as their epidemic divorce rates that affected us X'ers. So if the Millennials and Zoomers truly and honestly want to blame any one generation, it should be against the "greatest/silent" one. Yeah, they may have been the heroes of the battlefields, but at home they were terrors to their kids, as the same with the Vietnam vets that terrorized my Generation X peers.