Baby Boomers don't care about their grandkids.  

Baby Boomers raised their kids on HBO.

This is from my article, Inheritance: Wretched 20th Century Generations

As time progresses, Western society is beginning to learn that the generations following the Baby Boomers are none too happy about the “legacy” being left behind by that mid-20th Century generation.  In fact, it can be safely said that current Generation X and Millennial memories of the hippies that have run ruined our country for the past handful of decades have been filled with nothing but disdain.

The following comment from the Vox Popoli blog has resonated with me for a month and a half, now:

The Boomers are the generation that received a prosperous family farm complete with a barn filled with the bounty of a generous harvest. The Boomers quickly ate the whole of the harvest, and, still hungry, mortgaged the farm so they could glut themselves further. 

Not content with that, they pushed their children off the farm so they could bring in sharecroppers to grub the soil until its fertility and richness were spent.

When the sharecroppers got upset with declining yields and their meager wages, the Boomers promised them the land and proceeds of all future harvests.

Heedless of the damage already done, the Boomers made sure to hunt through the barn and eat the seed corn. Every single kernel.

Then, to the wonder of all, the Boomers got angry when their children pointed out the fact that the farm land is barren and sterile, the finances hopelessly in arrears, hostile sharecroppers are looking to take the land for themselves, and and there is not a seed left to plant.

This kind of an opinion about the Baby Boomers is nothing new.  And really, is there any other way to look at it?  This “prophet generation” as Aurini calls them, spawned from what is regarded as a “hero generation.”  Yet they are reactionaries who react against their heroic forbears with ingratitude and recklessness.  The results of their “free-spirited” thoughtlessness is a generation of disaffected nomads, underprotected runts, and a broken society that has lost its bearings.

Criticizing the Boomers has become a sort of sport among the latest generations, and a cursory look through various search engines will turn up plentiful amounts of editorials, scorchers, and negative assessments.  For example, in a tongue-and-cheek video about the subject, not only does Gavin McInnes declare the Boomers to the the worst generation, but he takes it even further, declaring them to be a “horrible, vile, disgusting, selfish, overindulgent, immature, retarded generation.”

The Spiritual Destruction
But it is not just online editorials that acknowledge this dark legacy the Boomers have dumped onto their children.  Even renown clergy will attest to the problems that come from the Boomers; although, wizened clergy take it a step further, pointing to the Greatest Generation as well.

According to Fr. Ripperger, The Greatest Generation (GG) actually qualifies as one of the worst generations in the history of the Church.  Though most consider them to be “great” because they fought in World War II, they went to war because they had to.  When they came back from the war, they were disgruntled.  Discussions of virtue stopped with them.  They did not embrace their cross or appropriate their suffering.  Instead, the GG complained about their suffering.  Unlike those before them, the GG lacked a virtue of mortification.  Living members of the GG refuse to admit to the faults and errors that have increased under their watch, and they look at the last 40 years as a stepchild to be forgotten.

But worst of all, it was under the watch of the Greatest Generation that the Catholic Church was handed over in shambles.  They “blocked the passing of the Tradition of the Church intact.”  It was their generation that brought us the horror that was the Second Vatican Council and its aftermath, the loosening of Church discipline, dissent, unorthodoxy, and the spread of immorality.  ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖ clergy was swept under the rug.  On their watch, the priest pedophilia scandal began.  In spite of official announcements from the hierarchy, the priests of the Greatest Generation appear to have rejected the teachings of contraception.

And so, because the GG indulged their children and failed to pass on the virtues of self-denial, they beget children who, having no hardship, gave in to various behaviors of intemperance, lacking docility and judgement.  The impious Boomers did not honor their ancestors, and they rejected the tradition that their forefathers blocked from them.  The Boomers have since become impossible to lead, and having a disrespect for all forms of authority, they are dictators of their own appetites, demonstrating that with power they become ruthless and selfish.  By rejecting the cross, the GG ensured the licentiousness of their Boomer children.

Looking back, it is not just material wealth that has been robbed from us by the previous generations.  It is not merely the fat of the land that has been taken away.  Our very legacy–our very identity–has been stripped away from the generations that came after the Boomers.  It is true that Generation X and the Millennials will now have to fiscally struggle harder than the Boomers did, that the economy is always teetering on destruction, that the housing market is destroyed, that retirement may not exist.  But even our very morality and spirit has been crushed under these people.

Returning to the state of the Church, organized religion in the West–Christendom–has been reduced to a burning dumpster fire.  Consider recent words from Monsignor Williams:

“When everything in the world around us is being turned upside down, it should not surprise us to find the Pope talking like a Communist politician and the leader of Russia talking like a Catholic Pope.”

Leftism and crass disrespect for reverence is the widespread “spirit” running rampant throughout the Church.  It becomes an Easter egg hunt to find wholesome traditional priests and parishes that will deliver a reverent and traditional Mass with the time-tested teachings.  Charles Coulombe has to cheerfully joke to the clergy that “the Church is not the mystical body of the pope,” and that Pope Francis will make his mark on history in the same way as painting a mustache on the Mona Lisa.  Ann Barnhardt, taking a more direct and grim approach, acknowledges that the clergy “don’t actually believe any of that Catholic bullshit,” relating that

“the aging-to-death religious orders are HAPPY that they are dying out because they HATE the Church and view The Church and their own orders as they were founded as “unjust”. These orders not only do not lament that they have no new incoming vocations, but they consciously, actively drive away any young people who come inquiring, because they consider any young person joining a religious order OF ANY KIND as a “waste of their life”. Needless to say, these auto-destructing religious orders hate with a fiery passion the traditional orders, which have young vocations out their ears, because THEY WANT THE CATHOLIC CHURCH TO DIE”

Conclusion
These are the times that try men’s souls, as Thomas Paine said in 1776.  Many times, animals will eat their young.  Yet, the Generation X and the Millennials who are alive have managed to survive the dangers of the 20th Century womb.  We haven’t been aborted.  So at least we have a fighting chance for life.  It may be that, after the devastation is complete and the Boomer generation has passed, the West will be left a blackened smoking crater.  We may have hardships and our spirits will be jaded and angry before all is said and done.

So pray for the graces to survive what seems a punishment from God.  Examine yourself and your character, and refuse to fall into the traps that our forefathers fell into.  Cleanse your line and raise a good family that breaks the old spell of your ancestors.  Prepare yourself and your progeny for a future of challenges.

As John Adams says:

“I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.”

So it must now be for us.  Get your heads on straight, fix your generational curses, live cleanly, and don’t cower.  My friends, I’m afraid we are left to sweep up the party favors of the 20th Century.

Baby Boomers don't care about their grandkids.

I know a LOT of baby boomer grandparents who watch their grandkids during the day, so their millenial daughters can work all day.

A Baby Boomer is defined as  a person born from 1946 and 1964. That's a long time period. The ones born in 1946 would have been 18 in 1964, and fully schooled before the fit hit the shan. The ones born in 1964 would have been babies the same year. The baby boomers were raised by parents who let their children fall into the pit. I was born in the 50's and was in my early teens when the Woodstock and free love hit the stage. For my parents, it was like if a 747 crashed into our house, it came out of nowhere. I do not blame them for not seeing it,  it was unprecedented. As for me, I had no Church to teach me otherwise, the Vatican II church was part of the revolution. So, I went along on the pleasure ride till I was 40, being successful making money and chasing bikini clad girls in the beach. There was no example of Church to teach me otherwise.

I do not blame my parents, I do not blame baby boomers, I do not blame the young people today, they were / are all dupes.  Even today, where are you going to send someone to teach them the truth, "go to that rented hotel room one hour away where once a month  they have a traveling priest mass, but don't go to the catholic church one block away, it is part of the problem ".?

Looking for others to blame for ones problems never gets one out of their predicament, it is part of mans fallen nature to blame others. If you want to improve yourself go and do it.

It is certainly true that women of the 'Baby Boom' era were horribly corrupted by feminism, however in my view that roots of that feminism go back to the early 20th century suffragette movement and to the 1930 Lambeth Conference where the Anglican Communion bowed to feminist pressure to accept contraception.

POPE IS AGAINST WOMAN IN POLITICS; Only Eccentrics Would Wish to Legislate, He Tells Delegation of Women. FATHER WYNNE EXPLAINS Church Desires Women to be Home Makers.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1909/04/22/101877545.pdf

Rome, April 21, 1909.

By the way, guys, we're just having a general discussion about the Baby Boomer generation in general. Trying to draw out some patterns and common traits. You know, philosophizing, which is much of what happens on a message board.

What my 2 big posts (right after the OP) were NOT about:

* Blaming or pointing fingers
* Declaring where all our problems come from or started
* Fomenting hatred against all individual Baby Boomers

There are plenty of Boomers who are excellent Catholics (see my post about "heavy hitter benefactors"). A Boomer can take his situation (see all the description in my 2 large posts above) and turn it into an asset for God's service by making donations to the Church, volunteering, etc. 

After all, there is an upside to everything, even limiting your family size. You will have a lot more money -- and free time, since some of your 3 grown children might live out-of-state. (I've seen this a hundred times) Why not help the Church out? And many Boomers do just that.

You can make the best of just about every bad situation. Your A/C goes out in July in south Texas? Well, at least you'll save a few bucks on your electric bill. 

You can't go back in time and do things differently, nor can you make yourself be raised in a different generation with different values. That isn't what God expects of us. He expects us to make the best of the hand we've been dealt -- and the hand we have today, based on how we've "played our hand" up till now.

Would it help you to deal with your anger if you focused on the exceptions?  I was born in 1958 and virtually none of the things said about Boomers in this thread is true about me.  I had seven children, prefer midwives, breastfed, homeschooled, avoid medications, wear dresses, etc.

I don't disagree that, as a group, we have negative characteristics, but some of us did reject typical Boomer behaviour.

Well said Jayne! All our boomer friends are all the things you say, also actively pro-life since the late 60s, politically active working against porn and for traditional families and traditional sexes, also of course, devoted to Our Lady.
I am familiar with the stereotyping and mocking of our age group among the entitled generations, but until now I have not seen it among traditional Catholics. How very sad.

Boomerphobia
How Generation Whinge are thieving from their elders

    Everyone hates a granny-basher. What is more morally warped than accosting a little old lady as she does her weekly shop and swiping her purse? Terrorism, maybe. And murder. But not much else. The dolts who do over old women and grab their cash make us mad because it is part of human nature to look out for the old, not nick their stuff.
    Which is what makes the outburst of boomerphobia among Generation Whinge – or Gen Y, to give them their official sociological name – so grating. Granny-bashing has gone respectable. Sure, the twenty- and thirtysomethings who blame the baby boomers for their every financial, social and personal screw-up don’t actually rough up old folks and snatch their stuff. But they do spend an insane amount of time weeping and moaning over how the boomers had it really good, and they have it really bad, and plotting new ways to make these cosseted fogeys cough up some cash or space to help young people out. It’s polite mugging, with words rather than fists.
    The latest wheeze of the meanies of Gen Y is basically to boot old people out of their homes. Really. Last week, a new report from the Australian Population Research Institute (APRI) evoked whoops of delight from the Gen Y self-pity party by suggesting greedy old farts should be encouraged to ‘downsize’ their homes. It recognised that this will be difficult, because, in the words of the Sydney Morning Herald, ‘they’ – ‘they’ being that blob of ageing irritants – ‘prefer to live in homes they have lived in for a long time’. Fancy that! Old people wanting to stay in homes they lovingly curated and raised their families in! The grasping rotters. But APRI is confident the crones and codgers can be elbowed out with the help of some tweaks to the tax and pension system that would ‘incentivise’ downsizing.
    ‘Incentivise’ – what a deliciously Orwellian word. Here it really means ‘pressurise’. And why must the old be ‘incentivised’ to leave homes they love? Because the young need them. There is ‘looming demand for detached houses by younger families, which the authorities have failed to plan for’, as SMH summarised, and so oldies must be ‘incentivised’ the hell out of town so that needy thirty-somethings can sleep in their beds.
    In Britain, the Y whiners actually refer to old folks who live alone in their own homes as ‘bed-blockers’. These people are so stupefyingly self-entitled that they think they have the right to move into your bedrooms. Actually they think that these are ‘their’ bedrooms and you are unfairly colonising them. Whatever sins the boomer generation may have committed pale into insignificance compared with the poncy privileged tantrums of the Y mob.
    At least street-based granny-bashers only make off with an oldie’s shopping money or credit card. The Gen Y muggers want far more than that: they want boomers’ beds, homes, lives.
The pressure on pensioners to shrink their living quarters sums up everything that is wrong with boomerphobia. It speaks to the ugly Malthusianism of generational politics, where instead of agitating for the building of more homes and the creation of new wealth the post-boomer moaners act as if all resources are fixed, as if there’s only a certain amount of things and money to go around, and thus we need a Mad Max-style war for stuff that pitches the allegedly hard-up young against the apparently moneyed old. Boomerphobia is the bastard offspring of an unholy marriage between two of the worst trends of our time: environmentalism and narcissism. The former convinces the young that everything is running out so they’d better steal whatever they can; the latter makes them think they deserve what they steal. ‘We’re worth it’ – the criminal cri de coeur of our era.
    The lingo and plans of the boomer-bashers get uglier by the day. ‘Baby boomers suck’, said a writer for the Daily Telegraph last month. They ‘ruined the planet’, no less. Earlier this year a writer for the Age said the boomers had committed an act of ‘intergenerational theft’, benefiting from free education and a healthy housing market and now leaving only debt and a destroyed environment to their offspring. Young Aussies are being ‘massively screwed by the baby boomers’, said the Age. In the UK, a columnist for the New Statesman says the young have been ‘screwed over’ by boomers, who are ‘richer, freer and more powerful than any generation this country has seen’.
    Okay, stop. Aside from the chalkboard-scraping noise of whinging they emit, there are two basic problems with youngish people’s declaration of generational war on the old. The first is that it is straight-up ludicrous to make sweeping generalisations about generations. The boomers, says that Telegraph writer, ‘enjoyed free tertiary education, affordable housing and unparalleled acquisition of wealth’ and now ‘swan about between their three properties’. What is she talking about? Do these moaning muppets really think all boomers, all people born between 1946 and 1964, had lives like that?
    My parents were born in the 1950s, ostensibly making them boomers. They left school at 14, travelled from Ireland to London when they were 18, lived in a hovel as they had six kids, and worked pretty much every hour of the day. There are loads and loads of so-called boomers who were working class, or poor, or even destitute, who never darkened the door of a university or bought a nice home. And yet these members of the postwar generation – the majority – are airbrushed out of history by Gen Y people who fantasise that literally everyone born in the 40s and 50s went to the Sorbonne and had sex with Jim Morrison before magicking up mortgages for their three future homes.
    The second, and most colossal, problem with boomerphobia is its dearth of social imagination. Bereft of ideas for how to kickstart economic life, and campaign for more house-building or a bigger and better capitalism, instead the Y lot take swipes at people who are comfortable, and who got comfortable by working and taking risks. They seem to think that the way things are is the way things will always be. How bizarre. How dispiriting. The problem here is not boomer greed but youthful fatalism.
    You want a home? Build one. You want a society that has more opportunities for younger families? Build one. You want a stronger economy? Build one. Quit your bitching; build a different future.

https://www.spectator.co.uk/2015/11/boomerphobia/