This author thinks Gen A kids are the grandchildren of Boomers? All the recent grandparents I know are Gen X and older Millenials. My Boomer parents have been great-grandparents for years now
I don’t know what fecund land of 20 year old parents you live in, but I know fewer boomer grandparents than I do boomers who aren’t grandparents.
Bear in mind that they’re not all 80, though. The youngest boomers are 61, and it’s not a stretch that they waited until early 30s to have kids, nor that their kids are waiting (or in fact that they chose not to have kids).
But it just goes to show that n=1 is a terrible sample size.
My parents are Boomers and in their 70s. You would need each generation to have kids in their 30s and 40s to be a boomer with a gen alpha grandkid. My sister is Gen X in her 50s and has two grandkids already.
Don’t forget Gen Z is between Millenials and Alpha.
Also this shows that the most common age of parents having their first child to be 20-24 up until very recently so that fecund land is your land too.
I’m 51, and my oldest grandchild is 17. I could theoretically be a great grandparent right now, if my granddaughter repeated her father’s (and my) pattern. My son was born when I was 19, and he got his High School girlfriend pregnant when they were both Freshmen.
I don’t know what fecund land of 20 year old parents you live in, but I know fewer boomer grandparents than I do boomers who aren’t grandparents.
Boomers. As in, people born in the babyboom after the second World War.
You’re saying you know more eighty year olds that aren’t grandparents, than those that are?
I guess that could be true. But it just goes to show that n=1 is a terrible sample size.
Bear in mind that they’re not all 80, though. The youngest boomers are 61, and it’s not a stretch that they waited until early 30s to have kids, nor that their kids are waiting (or in fact that they chose not to have kids).
Agreed.
The current age range for boomers is 62 to 80.
And yeah, most grandparents I know are very much in that age range.
My parents are Boomers and in their 70s. You would need each generation to have kids in their 30s and 40s to be a boomer with a gen alpha grandkid. My sister is Gen X in her 50s and has two grandkids already.
Don’t forget Gen Z is between Millenials and Alpha.
Also this shows that the most common age of parents having their first child to be 20-24 up until very recently so that fecund land is your land too.
I’m 51, and my oldest grandchild is 17. I could theoretically be a great grandparent right now, if my granddaughter repeated her father’s (and my) pattern. My son was born when I was 19, and he got his High School girlfriend pregnant when they were both Freshmen.