Posted on 01/15/2006 10:06:43 AM PST by Chi-townChief
Check again, then. Your comment egged me into putting some words there... I've had some free time this afternoon.
A lot of good points in your post. Let me address a couple. While I am generally pretty hard on Gen X/Yers, I also have to acknowledge that they got screwed on the education side and, that is one complaint that they are justified laying at boomer's feet. The aging hippies that we contributed to the world of academia realy sold the X/Yers short. They know next to nothing of American history, the Constitution, math or science. Thanks to Clinton killing off the Super-Conducting SuperCollider, we lost a huge opportunity to spark a rebirth in the interest of all things engineering and/or scientific. Now, with engineering jobs being shipped offshore, we have taken a definite leap down the slippery slope of irrelevance. Like many great nations that have gone before us, we are headed down a disturbing path.
The issue with Yers is more acute. These folks have grown up in a world filled with computers, VCRs, Nintendos and Gameboys. Because they spend so much time in isolation either palying video games or playing on the computer, (as a group) they lack well-developed social skills or much of a sense of reality. I worked as a substitute teacher for a couple of years and was surprised by the majority of the kids I encountered. Most of them are convinced that they will either be pro athletes or music stars. I hate to think of the rude awakening these kids are in for when they discover that someone is going to fix cars and someone will have to deliver bread and someone will have to build houses and buildings. The Yers may, eventually, figure it out and accomplish great things but, currently, I ain't impressed.
Not trying to get personal
But so you are saying Abusive relationships dont happen now, JULIA, THAT GIRL, MARY TYLER MOORE are sitcoms that changed the world and liberated women from getting married early, and helped women to realize the nuclear family was optional, but not necessary? Thats the contribution you want to tout?
Im sorry, but that is what I got from your post to me (#144) and Im not going to quote the whole thing here.
As for your question:
>>What legacy will Gen X'ers leave the rest of the world that comes behind them?????
We intend to work hard raise children ourselves and instill in them the morals our forefathers had. We have specific steps we are taking to effect this change.
1. My wife stays at home and raises the kids.
2. I work hard to support the family so she can.
3. We send our children to private schools (no government indoctrination).
4. We are teaching our children to work by giving them chores.
5. We require accountability
6. We live within our means
7. We spend time together as a family
8. We go to church together
9. We have an evening meal together every night.
10. We talk about current events and how ethical behavior is better than instant success.
What legacy will I leave behind? Strong children who will know what is right and have the faith to do what is right even when its hard. Thats all I can hope for.
GOD Bless you for that...If every family was like your's the world would be a much greater place.
What I was saying in my posts was before the Baby Boomer generation I suppose, came along many troubled families especially women who were living with physical,sexual mental abuse by thier husbands felt they had no way out because they had no where to go, no money, no social support, no education and many daughters of these women did not want to end up like there mothers.
My mother even told me when she was a child in the 40's many husbands did not even allow thier wives to drive a car.
I feel Girls today should have balance with family and career but to say they should go back to the days where women were trapped is ludacris.
The problem with the Women's Movement was they did not incorporate into thier agenda how important family was as well as women knowing how to achieve educational and financial success as well.
Today's women are stay at home mother's with an education and the ability to work outside the home with a decent job if they need to and that came from the generation prior to them.
>>Today's women are stay at home mother's with an education and the ability to work outside the home with a decent job if they need to and that came from the generation prior to them.
This is where we differ, you seem to think you helped somehow, but I dont see it. (Maybe its just me).
P.S. Before you think me a cretin (Not that it would be bad to be from Crete)
My wife is actually further out than I am; she thinks the U.S. would be better off if women never got the vote! (Shocked me to death when she fessed up to that one.)
YEEGADS!
Well from someone who has experienced the bad and the good in a marraige I will say that I am happy that as a individual woman I can choose to be with a man, not have to be with a man and IMO those kind of relationships at least for me are better in every way.
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