Interesting. I strongly suspect the decline in religious affiliation is related to childlessness, but which is the cause, and which the effect? Or they could both be caused by some common factor. Maybe this cohort doesn't trust in social institutions like religion because they felt like those institutions never came through for them: they never felt secure enough to have children.
Can I get a ruling on when Generation X ends? I was born in 1980 and am sometimes told that I'm part of it, sometimes not. This article defines it as ending in 1972, which seems very early. Surveying a narrower age band is the right choice here (don't want to mix in 30-somethings who are still having children), but why call it Generation X?
Of course, economic conservatism is dead among the elderly. The epitaph: "Keep your government hands off my Medicare."
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Date: 2012-06-01 10:01 pm (UTC)Can I get a ruling on when Generation X ends? I was born in 1980 and am sometimes told that I'm part of it, sometimes not. This article defines it as ending in 1972, which seems very early. Surveying a narrower age band is the right choice here (don't want to mix in 30-somethings who are still having children), but why call it Generation X?
Of course, economic conservatism is dead among the elderly. The epitaph: "Keep your government hands off my Medicare."