So much this.
Born in the 1960s:
-50/50 chance their parents stayed together
-50/50 chance their mother stayed home until they started kindergarten
-99% chance they got spanked
-Lower exposure to television
-No cable television, no 24-hour television
-No video games or internet
Born in the 1970s:
-Higher chance of divorced parents
-Moms had to work
-Lower chance of spanking, especially in late 70s
-Higher exposure to television, shows developed explicity for children (educational and exploitation running neck and neck)
-No cable television, no 24-hour television
-No video games or Internet
Born in the 1980s:
-Nearly all parents divorced
-All mothers worked at least part time with few exclusions
-Almost none of them spanked
-100% television exposure, child exploitation dialed back a little but oops too late
-Cable television invented, 24-hour stations followed quickly
-Rudimentary console video games
-No Internet
Born in the 1990s:
-Parents divorced more often than not
-100% employment of mothers
-0% spanking
-100% cable television exposure
-24-hour cable television
-Real video games
-Internet, but dial-up, expensive, and often supervised, net-nannied, or on a "family" computer
Born in 00s:
-Might as well not even have parents
-Spanking is a crime
-100% television
-100% Internet, unsupervised and private, each family member has their own
-Cell phones with internet
-Video games integrated with Internet
And then, outside events like the Vietnam War, Watergate, Gulf War I, Gulf War II, End of the Cold War/USSR, Y2K, and 9/11 all had their very different effects on each of those generations, making their outlooks on life VERY VERY DIFFERENT from each other. That's why I can't support the idea of 20-year "generations", because people who are born 20 years apart look at life MUCH differently. There's no way Gen-X lasted from 1960 to 1980, no matter what some dumb cuck's book claims.