it's demonstrably false so, no.

Yeah all of our parents hated each other and just stayed together for the kids. Now they're getting divorced after being together for 20-30+ years.

Maybe that's just my parents though.

n=1 is the best sample size

http://divorceministry4kids.com/2011...re-generation/

How Divorce Affected an Entire Generation

Generation X was raised in an environment where divorce was more rampant that at any other time in our nation’s history. That fact alone has shaped and molded an entire generation of children raised in “broken homes” and “step families.”

Indeed, divorce rates peaked in this country as we were coming of age. Divorce became socially acceptable and a common part of our everyday lives.

http://www.sobabyboomer.com/2011/07/...eneration.html

In fact, the often-cited statistic that half of all marriages end in divorce was true only in the 1970s—in other words, their parents' marriages. -

FATALITY

please elaborate. according to your chart its hovered around 50% for 3 decades. not just in the 70s

yes that is my point. catherine wheel was the one saying otherwise.

objection

overruled

30% to 50% in seven years - wtf

i'd like to point out the decade in which it started to rise

the fact that it leveled out at 50% in the late 70s doesn't support an argument that Gen Xers are somehow uniquely damaged from it. If anything, all it shows is that all kids raised after the 70s were just as likely to be exposed to divorce. Gen X, Gen Y, Millennials, etc.

it also doesn't take into account the impact on kids of previous generations who's parents were trapped in bad marriages.

no shit

ok did you for some reason think i was trying to bolster catherine wheel's argument or something

one of my coworkers is from a town in India with a population around 50k, and the divorce rate there is about 0.002%. Which probably isn't a good thing in many cases, but it's an interesting disparity

prolly cause divorce there ends with a face full of acid or being burns alive in the street

no. he's only trolling

I think trots has it partly correct. however, the notion that people my age were born into some kind of land of plenty is obsurd. yeah, ive been with the same company for 24 years. but I don't have a single friend my age who hasn't changed jobs every couple of years.

while the current recession has been horrible for just about everybody, there were recessions in the past too. and depending on when you entered the job market shit could have been bad for a lot of Gen Xers too. its not like everyone born between Kennedy and Carter all lived the same lives.

what trots is way off base about is the idea that someone my age had it easy. that's complete bullshit. in my own career for instance I had to spend ten years working retail before i was considered "qualified" for an entry level job in my office. today that job goes to a college grad who is almost a decade younger than I was back then.

I think that as time goes on though gen x looks an aweful lot like gen y. there is no job security today. and being 40 or 30 has no bearing anymore on wherlther you're likely to get a job or to hang on to one. .

and now people can't get those retail jobs

If I graduated college this year I wouldn't be competing for a retail job. I'd go directly to an entry level corporate job.

For trot's this is what Gen X spends their days worrying about

dependent on many, many other factors

like are you seriously saying that everyone who gets a BA goes right to a corporate job? are you insane?

college is more expensive, more competitive, and the economy is shittier.

No that's not what I'm saying.

I agree. What's your point?