Chapter Six Summary and Analysis

According to Howe and Strauss, parents on both the left and the right agree that families are very different than they were when the Baby Boomers were children and that the families the Boomers grew up with were the best because they produced the Boomer Generation. Howe and Strauss concede that the idea of a family is very different than it was in the 1940s, but it is not crumbling and is getting stronger in many ways.

In the late-1960s and 1970s, serious people question if the American family will last, but by the 1990s every politician must affirm family values to win election. In fact, the one uniting factor for diverse Baby Boomers is that they all love their children. However, the Millenial family still faces a number of challenges, single parenthood foremost among them.

Howe and...