Age gaps between generations

[Adolf]

A while ago I was seeing my dad's fiance and noticed how even though her children are around the same age as me and my sister their grandmother was young enough to had missed the depression era. She was born in 1940, a 50s youth and somehow had more in common with early Baby Boomers than what you would expect in the Silent Generation.

So Tales forum,
What year were you, your parents, and your grandparents born?
How old are they and what decades did they grow up in?
If anyone is from outside the anglo American and Canadian cultural spheres what are the stereotypes of the youth from their/your decade?
Do you think your parents/grandparents have attitudes typical to those from their time? What are they?

EDIT:
Sister: 1993
Me: 1991
Mom: 1959
Dad: 1958
Grandma (M): 1934 (?)
Grandpa (M): 1930
Grandma (P): 1926 - 2010
Grandpa (P): 1910s - 1980s
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[Dr. Casey]

Really interesting thread.

Me - August 1st 1987
Parents - December 31st 1948 (my dad), June 3rd 1952 (my mom)
Grandparents - Lloyd Slonecker May 11th 1918 (died June 17th 2011), Ruth Slonecker December 8th 1923, Bill Rabon October 23rd 1933, Lois Rabon July 27th 1923



My parents are both baby boomers, who are supposedly competitive and work-oriented. My mom fits that profile well enough - she was most definitely a workaholic during her 40s - though my dad is much more of a Type B personality far as those traits go.

Papa Bill was born during the Silent Generation era, who are known for being patriotic and blindly respectful of authority. I'm not sure whether he exhibits the former trait, but he grew up in a home with abusive parents and has always had issues with authority as a result.

Papa Lloyd and both the grandmothers were part of the G.I. Generation. Papa Lloyd fits the template for the so-called 1950s father fairly well (though he was more nurturing and didn't place as much stock in gender roles, he probably cooked and cleaned the house more than Grandmother did), though I'm having trouble finding traits for the G.I. Generation in general.

I fit the checklist for Generation Y well enough (tech savvy, accepting of change, etc), though I'm not sure I have that much in common with them considering I disliked most of the kids I went to school with. My parents and grandparents have a lot of those traits also, so it might be more a result of my family's influence than my generation's influence. My grandmother never owned a computer until 2001 when she was in her late 70s, but she quickly took to exchanging emails back and forth with my mom and shopping online at Amazon like a boss.

[Xendyl]

Me: 90s
Dad: 40s
Mom: 60s
Grandparents: Not sure, guessing around 1920s
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[Dr. Casey]

True facts: for a moment I read that as you saying that you were in your 90s.

[Cal]

My parents were born in '62 (Dad) and '65 (Mom).

I was born in June of 1985, and later in the month, my mom turned 20.

My maternal grandparents were only about 20 or less when they had their first child. This story actually pisses me off because it shows the utter selfishness of two people I genuinely dislike, but they were going to elope because my grandfather needed parental permission to marry, I guess? So I assume he was underaged. o.O; But they drove drunk, got in a car accident, and it resulted in the death of their friend who was with them. So they decided to have a baby instead - and yes, that got them married. My grandparents were probably born mid 40s, I'd wager?

Then they had three kids. My mom was born EXACTLY a year after her brother, and my aunt was born a year and two days after my mother.

My aunt had a kid in her teens, that kid had a kid in her teens, and her daughter is near her teens so...I'm anticipating that my great grandmother will soon be a great great great grandmother if she lives another couple of years.

So when I say "teenage pregnancy runs in my family" I'm not kidding. :/ My mom was the exception, and if you want to be technical, she was nineteen and therefore still a teenager.

I know my paternal grandparents are older than my maternal grandparents, and they are the kind of people who probably waited until they at least were 20 when they had kids, but I'm not exactly sure of what years they were born. I only know the dates! They also didn't have kid after kid after kid immediately. My dad's younger brother is my mom's age, and his oldest daughter is my age, but that's a delicate situation.

Both sets of grandparents are typical racist white people, too. Mostly. Dad's side without all the drugs and drinking, mom's side with LOTS of drugs and drinking. And my mom's parents are bad about the conspiracy theories and weird crap - they think solar panels are evil and dangerous, they think cholestrol is fiction, etc. And they're very much white trash.

My dad's parents are a bit more like average people their age, but the bigotry is upsetting to me despite it being how they were raised or whatever. :C But they are wiser with their money, take care of their house, and they care about going to college - which I wish were things they'd learned to pass onto their sons. -_-;
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[Suikoden2]

My parents are 9 and half years apart. '52 and '62. Between my siblings, my brother is 30, sister is 27 and I'm 22. One of my great grandmothers was born in 1895. Yep.

[Jean-Sébastien]

I was born in late 1983. I'm from a second marriage.

Both my parents married right out of highschool. I won't share the details but let's just say their early marriage... didn't end up as expected.

They met in the mid 70s. Bought a house in 1981.

My father was born in 1944. My mother in 1946.

[Zacewing]

Me - 1992
Parents - 1955 and 1956
Grandparents - 1921 and 1923
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[Jean-Sébastien]

My grandmother (mother's side) was born in 1920. She passed away in 2008.

She played Scrabble in italian. We have no italian blood what's o ever.

She was in the first promotion of women to graduate from the University of Ottawa. Her diploma is so old, it's written in latin. My mother have a copy.

[Xandy]

My dad was born in '62 (died last year), my mom being in '63. Is that still the baby boom? I don't know.
I was born in '91. Older sister '89. I am ten to twelve years older than my other siblings, and I feel the disconnect a lot with them... their generation is so strongly technology dependent, my siblings have no imagination outside of what they're into.

It was a little weird when I went to college, since at the time I was twenty and all my classmates were over twenty-five, with one being over thirty and one over forty (in a class of six).
It's weird being born in the nineties and eighties because we're the generation to see the real evolution of technology (though probably even more baffling if you were born in the fifties or the forties...)
Despite the age difference with some of these friends we still have a lot in common (but as time's gone on my interests have broadened and I guess I'm not into a lot of new things...)

So yeah. The generation gap feels even weirder as I get older. I'm in a fairly strong conservative environment too (it's said people get more conservative the older you get; I noticed it around my old group of friends, and I notice it in my family) yet I'm practically a socialist so... it feels really weird sometimes when I'm around family and really, really notice that.

...otherwise yeah besides family, most of my friends beyond college friends are less than a year apart from me so I don't notice it.

Except Pokemon. My friends in their thirties don't get it.

[Jean-Sébastien]

The downtown core of Edmonton is really leftist compared to, well.... the whole of Alberta! When I was walkiing on Whyte ave, I had to pinch myself to make sure I wasn't in Montréal. Whyte have a really hipster atmosphere.

At first I tought it was a mistake but now I realise the liberal leader was right when he said ''Alberta is not Alabama''. Albertans love money but they dont really give a ***** about your sexuality, at least in my experience.

[Zacewing]

[Flea]

[Harbinger]

I don't know my parents' birthday

As for me, December 1988. Ish, writing down the year makes me feel uneasy!
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[rohail1]

I was born in late 1988. I'm from a second marriage.

Both my parents married right out of highschool. I won't share the details but let's just say their early marriage... didn't end up as expected,