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"In the Fourteenth Generation, drug use is down; teen pregnancy and teen abortions are down; optimism is up; support of traditional moral values is up; “reality” is the big word because interest in absolute truth is up. A higher percentage of young people are pro-life than of any other age group. It is a generation of whom liberalism was expected and conservatism is being returned. We are patriotic and ambitious like our grandparents, morally rebellious like our parents. We are now in the beginning stages of that rebellion, and it is a rebellion against rebellion."

His conclusion puts the lie to his earlier assertion that Gen X was 'bewildered' and 'apathetic' about everything. Gen X might be financially less well off, more aborted, and poorly educated compared to their predecessors, but unlike the Boomers, They do know how to raise kids. And the non-Gen-X parents are mostly Boomers who are smart and waited to have kids until stable enough to do so, or Boomers who have grasped that they f'ed up the first time around with their initial families and have gotten better with their second parenting--though often abandoning their first spouse and kids in so doing. Gen X tends to really consider the financial and overall family impact of kids, and get it right the first time by parenting instead of resume-building.

I don't know any Boomer like that. Including me.

Didn't know I was wandering into a Boomer-bashing thread. [Or, aren't they all!]

Bought six copies of the Fourth Turning by Strauss and Howe and sent them as Christmas gifts to friends. It is a great book. Change is coming.