A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America

by Bruce Cannon Gibney

Nevertheless, Boomers divorce more than their elders did at comparable ages.32 This, too, suggests a degree of sociopathic inability to “form lasting relationships.”

I'm assuming it was mostly women who were getting the divorce from the husbands as they were no longer forced to stay in a marriage where the husband was deemed the master over the household and her. No longer were the women having to stay with a controlling narcissistic husband.

Independence was to be justified by the application of intellect to fact, not by sentiment alone—it was not “we want to be free,” but “here are the reasons why we must be free.”

The modest and static fraction of American students taking undergraduate degrees in science, technology, engineering, and math confirms the limited importance Americans repose in those fields, starting with the Boomers. The total number of STEM degrees has risen, but so has the population; as a percentage of total degrees granted STEM has at best remained fairly constant.23 However, especially at graduate levels, the enrollment of foreign students has been

an important driver of STEM education, and foreign students account for a majority of graduate students in critical programs.24 Oddly, when they are finished, many graduates are forced back home due to bizarre immigration policies. The trend surprises all the more, because in an ever more technological world, one in which holders of technical degrees have the best economic prospects, you’d expect a considerable rise in such degrees by native citizens and higher funding by the American government. (Foreign students often pay more, and cash-hungry universities recruit accordingly.) What changed, then, is not the employment prospects for scientists and engineers, or some mass shuttering of American engineering schools; what changed was the culture.