One of the big demographic trends facing the US is the aging of the baby boomers. Arts & Letters Daily has a link to a BBC post that tries to raise some of the cons of the baby boom generation. Don’t just read the article. Read the comments that follow. They are just as interesting and even more illuminating as the article. The comments show some of the intergenerational stresses we have started to experience. Some of the comments also do an excellent job of framing the debate in a bigger picture. One of how families and generations are fluid and always changing.
Extension professionals will continue to face generational issues over the next decade and beyond. Understanding the broader contexts of the issues will help to frame the issues.