Gen X is the middle child of generations. That’s true literally of the five adult generations of the 2020s: Silents and Boomers are older, and Millennials and Gen Z are younger. It’s also true figuratively: Just like the middle child in the family, everyone forgets about Gen X. When CBS News posted a graphic of the generations in 2019, they left Gen X out entirely, blithely skipping over the birth years between Boomers and Millennials as if they didn’t exist. Articles and social media fights regularly pit Boomers and Millennials against each other without any acknowledgment that there’s a
...more
