Jun 29, 2009 11:32am
Talking About My Generation…Gap
EmailBack in 1969 parents and their teens were not seeing eye to eye. It was the year of Woodstock, Vietnam, social upheaval, on and on. Interestingly Pew Research is out with a survey today that says right now parents and youth are experiencing a similar generation "gap". In fact there hasn't been such a disconnect between youth and elder since '69. Adults are especially not seeing eye to eye these days with the young over social issues. 8 in 10 feel their is now a growing chasm.
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And what exactly aren’t they seeing eye to eye about? This very, very vague.
Posted by: Lola LB | June 29, 2009, 12:36 pm 12:36 pm
Hell no, we won’t go!
Posted by: BikernAz12 | June 29, 2009, 1:14 pm 1:14 pm
Turn on, tune in and drop out!
Posted by: BikernAz12 | June 29, 2009, 1:15 pm 1:15 pm
Far out and right on!
Posted by: BikernAz12 | June 29, 2009, 1:16 pm 1:16 pm
Maybe I’m just one of the lucky ones but my 18 year old son and I are and have always been very close. He’s a great kid.
Posted by: Lisa | June 29, 2009, 1:17 pm 1:17 pm
“8 in 10 feel their is now a growing chasm.”
8 in 10 feel there is a need for better proofreading.
Posted by: GC | June 29, 2009, 1:21 pm 1:21 pm
“Interestingly” means the results of the research left much for interpretation and ABC is using it to create a generation gap!
Posted by: Rohit | June 29, 2009, 2:13 pm 2:13 pm
It is one little paragraph from a long report on Aging. Here is the gist of it from Pew.
“the phrase now means something different, and less confrontational, than it did at the height of the counterculture’s defiant challenges to the establishment 40 years ago. Whatever the current understanding of the term “generation gap,” roughly equal shares of young, middle-aged and older respondents in the new survey agree that such a gap exists. The most common explanation offered by respondents of all ages has to do with differences in morality, values and work ethic. Relatively few cite differences in political outlook or in uses of technology.”
Posted by: booklady | June 29, 2009, 3:49 pm 3:49 pm
How can there be a chasm? We said everything there was to say, did everything there was to do, wrote all the songs – thought all the thoughts– all they have to do is “get it”.
Posted by: james | June 29, 2009, 6:27 pm 6:27 pm
But james, if you don’t spoon feed it to them they won’t get it.
Even Mary Poppins knew that.
Posted by: Noz | June 30, 2009, 10:40 am 10:40 am