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Taverner

(55,476 posts) Fri Oct 5, 2012, 09:30 PM Oct 2012

What kind of freakin world did our parents live in???? I'm GenX... [View all]

Seriously - I can see why the boomers threw off the shackles and ran for the door!

Please someone tell me, what did our - or rather - MY parents (parents in their late 70s) go through????

They were the 'Mad Men' generation...

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What kind of freakin world did our parents live in???? I'm GenX... [View all] Taverner Oct 2012 OP

They drank like fish and spouse swapping was popular. NYC_SKP Oct 2012 #1

They didn't? Brigid Oct 2012 #3

Oh now... NYC_SKP Oct 2012 #4

Spouse swapping is always popular. valerief Oct 2012 #2

They were low birth year kids like me and my brother Taverner Oct 2012 #5

Yes, that's the Silent Generation. nt valerief Oct 2012 #7

I'm also GenX and my parents are in their mid to late 70s, Silent Generation Kennah Oct 2012 #6

"Homeland Generation"? IDemo Oct 2012 #10

I hope like hell it doesn't take hold. iGeneration seems to roll off the tongue easily. Kennah Oct 2012 #18

They saw a whole lot of history! DearHeart Oct 2012 #8

My parents were reminiscing with my aunt about their early childhood. LiberalAndProud Oct 2012 #9

Funny how they view political processes, LiveNudePolitics Oct 2012 #11

It was hysterically anti-communist Tom_x Oct 2012 #12

Read Doctorow's "Book of Daniel".... zanana1 Oct 2012 #14

Oh yeah - Peekskill Riots Taverner Oct 2012 #15

Why don't you ask your parents what they went through? Curmudgeoness Oct 2012 #13

Come on - Did it ever occur to you that I might have? Taverner Oct 2012 #16

I'm an older Gen Xer Arugula Latte Oct 2012 #17

True - I can speak their language Taverner Oct 2012 #19