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Hey, cut us some slack, we were raised by Boomers.

Scarily enough, I bet every generation since Gen-X has been largely raised by Boomers: Gen-X and Milennials largely had boomer parents. Many kids in the later generations are effectively being raised by their (Boomer) grandparents because their parents are either not involved or absent because working too hard.

For most of my 13 year old kid's friends, I only know their grandparents. Never see the actual parents.

It's a lot more spread out than that since women have so many potential reproductive years.

There are families out there still with 18-20 year cycles and could pretty much tick off every generation.

And families like mine that more or less skip every other: Silent -> X -> Z -> ???.

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