we got diddly for raising our kids....
While I am not a boomer, nor Gen X, I have a hard time feeling sorry for Boomers. Your generation came of age during a great economy. And your generation took the birth control pill and for a short while legitimately had twice the earning power of the prior generations. That worked for a while until all the women in the workforce pushed wages down. Now two incomes is a sad necessity for most young families.
Your generation also went wild on unconventional behavior. Right and wrong was muddled. Divorce became commoonplace in the 70s and latch key kids became a real thing.
I recall being a teenager (I was born in 1970) listening to Boomers being exasperated with their children not listening to them. As a smart mouth teen I would ask them if they would ever behave like this when they were young and they would almost always look at me like I was the most stupid person in the world. They would say of course not, my parents would have killed me. Then I would give them the look like, well why don’t you do the same. And suddenly they looked rather small.
However I can’t really hate on Boomers because there has never been a time in history when human beings could control their fertility. As we can see around the world and despite culture or religion, women went for birth control in a big way. That is imo, the most significant event that turned our culture. Women went from being nurturing moms to boss babes who can do anything a man can do. And how have the children suffered for it.
And now the youth are so strapped, they may not even have children. I guess that’s one way to make sure the rent is paid on time.
Older people got a permanent 20% drop in value for their lifetime of savings with no potential for pay increases, just in the past 3 years. Much more if they want to eat.
In Chesterfield, Virginia if you are over a certain age, 65 you get your property taxes reduced.
After age 70 taxes are reduced to zero.
This also applies to the disabled.