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Literally not how it works at all. Generations are defined on the year you were born, not who you were born to.
Mick Jagger was born in 1943, making him part of the Silent Generation. When his wife had their latest kid, in 2016, Jagger was 73. That child is not a baby boomer.
You can read more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation#List_of_named_generations
Ok, I think this is just trolling at this point. No way someone can make this argument in good faith AND throw out that weak of an insult.
Its like its totally impossible for a word to mean 2 slightly different things is different contexts.
Yeah if only we had some sort of non profit organization to run some sort of massive online wiki to keep this all straight for us.
Yes, clearly your clear misunderstanding of a topic must be because people are not providing primary sources.....
By calling you young? That is not even insulting. I found the slight on Wikipedia more offensive.
For real, wikipedia is the best
I can't believe you're this confident about something so basic and somehow you're wrong
Also, what, can't win an argument without infantilizing your opponent? I mean it's clear you know nothing about this topic and just assume you can "debate" about it using google or whatever, ironic coming from the guy who discounts wikipedia. That's better than anything you'd know by a good margin anyways.
Wow really got me lmao
Like seriously? "Uhhh duhhh nuh uh, no you" is the best you could come up with? What are you, five?
There's not much point in doing that. Like I said, you don't know what you're talking about, and it's just an argument of which definition is best to use, so it's not really much of a debate. TL;DR: Not interested.
Socially, named generations like millennials use definition 1b, because some people are grandparents at age 30, and others don't become grandparents til they're 80.
The point of generational cohorts like millennials or the silent generation is that being born at a particular time in history has an affect on people.
The silent generation's earliest memories were depression and war. The great recession impacted millennials in their early career or in high school.
Age ranges captures that and makes it easy to measure things without having to find out when someone's great grandparents were born.
And yeah, 30's on the young side. Lauren Boebert was in the news recently as a teen mother who became a grandmother at age 36.
Your definition slips pretty quickly, though. Some siblings have really long age gaps. Some women first give birth at 18 or 19, others not til they're 40.
The average really isn't close enough that you only need to consider outliers.
Two generations of 30 year old first time mothers fit into the same time as three generations of 20 year old first time mothers.
Neither of those cases is an outlier, and that's slip in only two/three generations.