Hose water was awesome!
neglect
because boomer (too much) enjoying their life?
Less helicopter parenting.
GenX were allowed to be latchkey kids and roam free. Later generations got weird about parenting and safety.
Gen x IS the later generation raising their kids super protectively. And we don’t even know why it turned that way.
Because journalism started becoming fear bait. They raised ratings by making people scared to be outside, or think if they let their eyes off their kids for a second, they’ll be taken (even though it’s far more likely they’ll be killed in a car accident, or abused by someone they know).
Media did it.
There were a few kidnappings.
That is why Mom used to tell me not to get kidnapped.
Nobody cares.
Gen X here. What made us uniquely who we were is that we were the first generation to know that the boomers were full of shit. It was a loss of innocence.
And MTV. It’s interesting to observe how little is relevant anymore what we grew up with. And it’s getting faster and faster. Social media in it’s current form will die too in the next 10 years or so. Memes will prevail, though. They have to.