Some of the many cultural influences on Gen X youth included a proliferation of musical genres with strong social-tribal identity such as punk, post-punk, and heavy metal, in addition to later forms developed by Gen Xers themselves (e.g., grunge, grindcore and related genres). This was a result of increasing divorce rates and increased maternal participation in the workforce prior to widespread availability of childcare options outside the home.Īs adolescents and young adults in the 1980s and 1990s, Xers were dubbed the " MTV Generation" (a reference to the music video channel), sometimes being characterized as slackers, cynical, and disaffected. Īs children in the 1970s and 1980s, a time of shifting societal values, Gen Xers were sometimes called the "latchkey generation," which stems from their returning as children to an empty home and needing to use the door key, due to reduced adult supervision compared to previous generations. Most members of Generation X are the children of the Silent Generation and early boomers Xers are also often the parents of millennials and Generation Z. Census data, there are 65.2 million Gen Xers in the United States as of 2019. Researchers and popular media use the mid-to-late 1960s as starting birth years and the late 1970s to early 1980s as ending birth years, with the generation being generally defined as people born from 1965 to 1980. Generation X (often shortened to Gen X) is the Western demographic cohort following the baby boomers and preceding the millennials.
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