Reply #31: Actually, that makes you an early Gen-Xer sociologically. [View All]

The sociological Baby Boom is offset a couple of years from the Demographic boom. The social historians Willian Strauss and Neil how, who have written several books on the sociology of generations and their historical impact defines the Bommers as being born from 1942 to 1960, the former date being, according to Strauss and Howe, the oldest people eligible to be drafted to go to Vietnam. The later date is more diffuse and harder to define, and many people use the term "Generation Jones" for the late Boomers and early Xers, but Strauss and Howe chose 1960 because it would include the youngest people that would have any memory of the JFK assassination and could have really participated in the 70s social movements as teens and the late 70s/early 80s evangelical Christianity as young adults.