Being Raised by Depression Era Survivors Shaped Gen X’s Parenting

Emotionally Unavailable Boomers Created Emotionally Shielded Gen Xers

Boomers (those born between 1946 and 1964) were raised by parents who lived through world wars and the Great Depression. As children, they were expected to be seen and not heard. Their mental health conditions were mostly untreated, undiagnosed, misunderstood, and stigmatized; shaping many of them into emotionally unavailable parents.

Generation X grew …