11-07-2016, 02:14 PM
(11-07-2016, 12:54 PM)gabrielle Wrote: According to the Lifecourse website, Silent Generation was from '25 to '42. http://www.lifecourse.com/about/method/t...ation.html
Which makes both Bernie and Babs Silent Generation, but just barely. They both have prophet characteristics, to be sure.
Strauss & Howe put the generational breakpoints a few years earlier than the demographic definitions. For example, the demographic definition says that people who are born in 1964 are still boomers. From a generational cohort characteristic perspective, the Strauss & Howe definitions work better.