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Sample Discussion Board Posting #4

My mother was a baby boomer raised by a single mother who worked. This family experience makes her more like a generation x-er as defined in our reading. However, her values are clearly the values as defined by the baby boomer generation. This negates Martin and Ediver's findings that family experiences, above all, account for generational differences. Family experiences have to be understood within the context of cultural values. Are there other variables? Smieth states that...and, Ronald and Dawn's personal experiences support Smith...