Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents—and What They Mean for America's Future

by Jean M. Twenge

For Silents, it was important to do what everyone else was doing, and everyone else was getting married young. Raised in the more communal 1950s, Silents felt the pressure of conformity in a way later generations struggle to understand.