The generations don't work out quite so neat though. boomers started turning 20 in 1966, so a lot of Xers born between '66 and '80 were of Boomer stock. Many were not, but there's an overlap.
For example Michael J Fox's fictional 80s parents were both: Alex P Keaton's parents were hippie Boomers, but George and Lorraine McFly were Silents born in the 30s.
Likewise many Boomers birthed Millenials. That's not to say Gen X doesn't share the blame for Gen Y.
If you Google "Generation X celebrities" it paints a certain picture that may not be entirely accurate, but it's a decent enough sample.
Will Smith: 56, born 1968. His kids are 32, 26, and 24.
Neve Campbell, 53, born 1971. Her kids are 12 and 4. Please note she had her youngest when she was
49 fucking years old JFC.
Christian Slater, 55, born 1969. His kids are 25, 22, 5, and 1 years old lol.
Keanu Reeves, 60, born 1964. I would argue that he's actually a Boomer because the cutoff is 1965 imho. He doesn't have any kids, but his girlfriend had a stillbirth in 1999. If that child had survived it would be 26 years old.
Robert Downey Jr., 60, born 1965. His kids are 32, 14, and 12.
Honorable mention Gen X celebs: Winona Ryder, 53, born 1971, no kids.
Jennifer Aniston, 56, born 1969, no kids.
Brad Pitt, 63, born 1961, adopted kids so it doesn't count.
The point I am making here is that a good number of Generation X people are between 50 and 60 years old, and while some of them do have Zoomers and even toddlers, the vast majority of them have Millenial kids as their oldest, at least from their first marriages lol. If a Gen X married by 30 (which was very much a thing back then) and had 1 or 2 kids from their first marriage, they had Millenials, not Zoomers. When they have Zoomers, they're either pushing the leather egg barrier hard, or they got a younger 2nd wife.
Generation X were raised like animals and largely ignored. They were the first generation to have the majority of their mothers go to work, the majority from broken homes, after-school programs didn't exist yet, and daycare was a prototype. GenX kids went to relatives as little kids, and babysitters that weren't that much older than they were, or were left to their own devices. Their parents were self-centered shits who were more worried about their own happiness and pleasure than they were about their kids.
As a result, most of Generation X didn't have an example of good parenting to emulate. What they did have, they passed on to their kids--fast food every night, stfu and look at the screen, and don't marry, because it might fail, and somehow that's worse than not having a dad wtf. A good lot of them were raised by overworked single mothers who felt the need to ride the cock carousel more than they wanted to raise their children, and let their kids know it. No hippy dippy finger-painting and making cookies with Mom for Millenials on down. Gen X were terrible at parenting, because they were the result of terrible parenting.
