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Originally Posted by FireGilbert
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Yeah, I've seen Gen X and millennials associated with a number of different time frames.
At one point, I understood it to be the back end of the boom. Birth rates in the boom peaked in 1960 IIRC, and started to trail off form 61 to 66 until a defined decrease in 1967 that continues on until an increase around 1980. It's probably not too much of a stretch to suggest that the core Millennials are 1985'ish and later, and generation itself would be about 20 years. Meaning the post boomer generation is 67 to 85 or so. I'm right in the middle there so I saw computers in school, but they weren't used that regularly until I was out of high school.
I would have to think that as time goes on, each generation is likely starting families and the like on average later in life. I'm just past 40 with a 2 year old daughter....many of the other families taking kids to daycare don't look any younger than me. When I went to senior secondary school (grades 11-12), there was myself and two of my friends in grade 12 who had Dad's that were over 50 Most peoples parents were mid 40's. So for me I had parents who were both born before the baby boom. Whereas many of my friends parents were born at the front end of the boom. But it's not like they were all that different. So as much as the cohorts may be definable, I think any group of people born within 5 years of each other one way or the other can find enough common traits within those sub cohorts.