Francis Beckett – What did the baby-boomers ever do for us?
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My Boomer Tips
Journalist and contemporary historian Francis Beckett explains why he believes the children of the sixties lived the dream and failed the future.





I am the child of baby boomer parents, and I am from the US rather than Great Britian, I am thankful for the baby boomer generation as being a powerful force behind positive social changes in the realm of civil/minority rights, women’s liberation, political activism among young college students, an end to sexual repression for women, etc. I would go the way of Sylvia Plath had I been a woman in the 50′s with limited financial, marital, academic, career and other opportunities.