Boomerang Generation
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| American Generations | |
|---|---|
| Term | Period |
| Awakening Generation | 1701–1723 |
| First Great Awakening | 1730–1740 |
| Liberty Generation Republican Generation Compromise Generation | 1724–1741 1742–1766 1767–1791 |
| Second Great Awakening | 1790–1840 |
| Transcendentalist Generation Transcendental Generation Abolitionist Generation Gilded Generation Progressive Generation | 1789–1819 1792–1821 1819–1842 1822–1842 1843–1859 |
| Third Great Awakening aka Missionary Awakening | 1886–1908 |
| Missionary Generation Lost Generation Interbellum Generation G.I. Generation Greatest Generation | 1860–1882 1883–1900 1900–1910 1900–1924 1911–1924 |
| Jazz Age aka American High | 1929–1956 |
| Silent Generation Baby boomer>Baby Boomers Beat Generation Generation Jones | 1925–1945 1946–1964 1948–1962 1954–1965 |
| Consciousness Revolution | 1964–1984 |
| Baby Busters Generation X MTV Generation | 1958–1968 1961–1981 1975–1985 |
| Culture Wars | 1984–2005 |
| Boomerang Generation Generation Y Internet generation New Silent Generation | 1981–1986 1977–2003 1986–1999 2001– |
Boomerang Generation is a term occasionally used to describe the current generation of young adults in contemporary western culture, born approximately between 1977 and 1986.
The term 'boomerang' refers to the commonality with which these young adults choose to move back home with their parents after a brief period of living on their own, usually college, or to never move out in the first place. The 18th through 21st birthdays of this generation coincide with the economic downturn starting with the collapse of the stock market bubble in 2000. This led to rising unemployment until 2004, the same time this generation was entering the workforce after high school or college graduation. Additionally, in the new economy, where outsourcing has eliminated many jobs, real wages have fallen over the last twenty years[[Citing sources citation needed]] and a college degree no longer ensures job stability,[[Citing sources citation needed]] this is the easiest, if not only, way for these young adults to maintain the middle class lifestyle they anticipated. Moving back home allows them the option of unpaid internships and additional schooling without the burden of fully maintaining their own finances.
This generation is unique from previous generations in that many expect to remain at home with one's parents, while maintaining their own social and professional lives. With many of one's friends also living at home, the stigma of living with one's parents is greatly reduced. This has also put parents in an awkward situation where they have great difficulty understanding how to relate to their children as adults under the same household.
Support of the trend
Supporters have argued that this is a potential boon to both parents and their children. The basis of this reasoning is that modern parents often seek to evict children out of the home at eighteen at which point the children rarely return and the relationship is lost. However, with the boomerang generation, the children (now young adults) return to their families and will forge an adult relationship with their parents.In societies where it is common for children to live with their parents into adulthood, such as Asian and Hispanic cultures, it has been observed that the children continue to take care of their parents into old age, rather then abandoning the responsibility to a third party, such as nursing home as with western culture.
The observation being made is that adults who are quick to get rid of their children in turn create children who are quick to get rid of their aging parents.
See also
External links
- http://www.lifestartsat.com/parenting/boomerang_generation.php
- http://wallstr.blogspot.com/2005/10/boomerang-generation.html
- http://www.crowdednestsyndrome.com/
- http://www.wordspy.com/words/boomeranger.asp
- http://www.therestofyourlife-movie.com
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