Two generations ago this country was built on a solid foundation of people. Generation Xer's have turned out to be real failures in raising their kids. The "Who cares attitude" has replaced right and wrong. This will continue to drag our country down until it is as corrupt as a Germany or France.
2006-08-11 12:10:04 · 15 answers · asked by troy j 2 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Parenting
Didn't pass along what their fathers taught them. Work ethic,self determination,common sense. The latter of which is probably the most important!
2006-08-11 12:17:10 · answer #1 · answered by Wounded duckmate 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How do you know if Gen Xers have been failures at raising our kids? From my calculations, the oldest Gen Xer's (born in the late 60s and early 60s) don't even have full grown children yet. The Gen Xers are the ones who have brought back the values of staying home and actually raising their children, denying themselves instead of thinking their kids will turn out all right while they go "find themselves."
If you do research instead of listening to the media, who blow everything out of proportion, the peak of violence, teen pregnancy, teen abortion, and drug use was 1991 (coincidentally the year that I graduated high school) -- we were children of the Baby Boomers (who, coincidentally, were the children of the Greatest Generation -- NOT the Gen Xers, so get it right!!). It was the Baby Boomers that screwed the Gen Xers up, but we are turning it around and teaching our children differently. Research shows that drug use, teen pregnancy, etc, are all steadily declining in rate since 1991. Hm, kind of makes you think, huh??
2006-08-11 12:27:19 · answer #2 · answered by Amie 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Huh? You think you belong to the "greatest generation" don't you? You actually believe you can take personal credit for the co-incidences that gave you an easy life while my baby-buster generation struggled and served you your stupid coffee while you acted all snotty? HA HA HA I laugh in your spoiled rotten face. There is NOTHING wrong with kids today that's different from previous generations. You're just looking for excuses to put others down because you feel sorry for yourself for getting old!!
2006-08-11 12:20:14 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Gen Xers come from actual war and pre-war babies (1935-1945), so their kids were born in the early to mid 1960s.
They came into their own in the 1980s.
So if Gen Xers have failed, it is those kids we now seem to call Boomerang Babies or Gen Y-ers that are falling apart.
it all gets confusing.
2006-08-11 12:42:59 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm a Baby Boomer born on the cusp of Generation X. My son is 22 years old, a computer technician, and a good husband and father to his baby son. I don't consider myself a failure thank you very much!
2006-08-11 20:10:11 · answer #5 · answered by starrynight1 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
you need to leave the generation thing out. but yes society is going to HELL. Things were going good for awhile , but now kids are going crazy, sex at 10 and 11 ; drug use just because they have nothing better to do . But it's a cycle they will grow out of it and they will teach their kids better (hopefully ) and society will loose the " who cares" attitude and loose the " it's not going to happen to me" attitude as well..
2006-08-11 13:08:15 · answer #6 · answered by manda 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"the greatest generation"
.......what a laugh! the 'greatest generation' is/was rife with ugly, hateful, stupid, selfish events!
only a moron would fail to see the direct connection between the conduct of past generations and the conduct of the following generations (who probably think they are the greatest!).
How's your parenting skills and style? are you producing good kids or bad ones?
stop whining about how things are and make things better!
2006-08-11 19:51:03 · answer #7 · answered by jimrich 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Parents always want their kids to have a better life than they had. It's been going on forever. The world grew up. Just remember this when your son is 17.
2006-08-11 12:17:10 · answer #8 · answered by da_hammerhead 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The 60s man, far out.
2006-08-11 12:15:27 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Too much DDT in the garden
2006-08-11 12:15:52 · answer #10 · answered by HendryDoso 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋