What is Generation Jones?

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[@ndstar4267]

This hits me on the head being born in 62 everything said was my life when I was younger.

[@richardterroni9433]

I would say you are Gen X and Gen Jones

[@MDKE114]

My father was a WWII vet, but my brother and I are both Gen Jones. Dad was 34 when our parents got married in 1955.

[@billh673]

My father was also in WW2 he was 42 in 62 when I was born, I had a half sister from his first marriage and we have absolutely nothing in common that's why I laugh when someone calls me a boomer yet friends of mine that I grew up with that are a few years younger than I am are somehow Gen X? 😂👌🏻

[@michaelkelly1251]

I am a generation Jones and my father was a survivor of the battle of the bulge in WWII

[@bethrossiter1857]

this explains a lot! 😅

[@dathomestead3115]

My dad was a ww2 vet but yes I'm a gen Jones.

[@artmv1149]

same here

[@StuJones-gn7te]

My dad was 12 when ww2 ended but was in during the Korean war.

[@MDKE114]

Same with me.

[@impalaman9707]

As a Gen Xer, I was in 5th grade when the older kids graduated from high school in 1982. It never made sense to me that those kids born in 1964 were of a different generation than me---especially, my boomer parents generation, because they seemed so much like us underclassmen.

[@thatgirl1269]

I'm Gen X (1969) with a Generation Jones husband (1955). He'll be at least pleased to know I now have to stop saying OK Boomer to him when he enrages me 😂

[@whyrwehere]

Ok Jones

[@richardterroni9433]

Why not he's still a Boomer

[@StuJones-gn7te]

I always say "post war baby boom" can't include people born 17-21 years after the war. Its something else after 4 or 5 years.

[@richardterroni9433]

​@StuJones-gn7te Very true, most post War effects and ramifications were over by the Mid-50s and birth rates peaked in 1957 and than began to decline.

[@StuJones-gn7te]

I like this. I always hated being lumped in with the hippies. I can't remember JFK, RFK or MLK. My earliest memories of national events are about Watergate pre empting all my favorite tv shows. Seemed to go on forever. I was born in 1962. That 70s Show was a lot like my childhood.

[@chetisanhart3457]

F@ckin' aye

[@bobthebuilder9553]

Most Generation Jones fathers were WWII and KOREAN WAR veterans as fathers. My brother-in-law was born in 1957 and his dad was a B-29 navigator in WWII. his statement is false. My father was drafted in late 1944 into the army, but was 4f due to poor eyesight. When 1950 came around and the Korean war started, my father's eyesight did not matter. He went into the Korean war. My father was born in late 1926. So he was eligible for WWII and Korea.

[@eh1702]

In the USA, yes. Not the same in the UK or Europe. (I say this because the narration here is in an English accent). Gen Jones in the UK & Europe are very often the offspring of the small cohort of people who were children in WW2. IN the actual war, not just “wartime”. There are a couple of different reasons for that. In the UK & Europe, a much bigger proportion of “Greatest Generation” people either did not survive to have children, or were delayed in becoming parents, than in the USA. In 1945, two years “national service” was instigated for conscripts who had not served that long yet, and for all other men of military age. So a huge proportion of couples or potential couples of childbearing age were split from 1938 to demob in 46-47. In some places, child mortality in the 1930s & 40s was also uniquely high. So there is a more definite gap. War children were a small generation. Yet they often had larger families than their GG elders. Of those not old enough to serve in WW2, their education was degraded and disrupted by war, they were often displaced, refugees, evacuees, &/ or under enemy occupation: and their mothers and sisters over 18 were also drafted into war work, or joined military ancillary organisations. They REALLY were the “feral children”. Many of them routinely foraged for scrap metal, jam jars, rose hips and other wild fruit, horse dung, coal dust… Rationing made meat available to many families who could not afford it before. The war children in Europe typically became “adults” very young - full time work at 13 & 14, in my parents’ case. Marriage - parenthood- in the late teens and very early twenties for most of them. Actually very soon after, and overlapping with, the much more mature Greatest Gen becoming parents. The Korean war did not have such a big cultural impact in the UK as in the US, and a negligible demographic impact. A bigger proportion of UK troops, were professional soldiers. The UK had plenty other nasty little wars of its own - but conscription/National Service was ended in 1963. This cohort, in UK & Europe, often had more children than Greatest Gen couples, having married young, whether they wanted them or not. They were in Europe a publicly diffident, privately very skeptical cohort, overwhelmed for a long time, I think, by the heroic and more assured Greatest Gen, who returned to the workplace with more maturity, skills and education than these war children trying to get a foothold.

[@philhenman2402]

😯 wow

[@ozarkrefugee]

Over educated sociology professors came up with the notions of separations in generations. Astrologically speaking, there are three sub generations within each generation based on what signs and aspects outer planets were making.

[@StuJones-gn7te]

True. Neptune in Libra runs from about 1942 to 1956. Then from 1956 to 1970, Neptune is in Scorpio. Hippies vs punk rockers.

[@cowboyofscience7611]

Astrology is as fake as "over educated sociology professors." Get a job!

[@richardterroni9433]

Most Baby Boomers (even early ones) grew up with a TV set as most people got them in the early to mid-40s. Late Boomers were probably more likely to grow up with a color TV set.

[@eh1702]

This is very different in the US and UK & Europe. I’ve never actually met anyone in the UK whose family had a TV set in the 1940s. The coronation of QE2 in 1952 was something of a watershed. As it was to be televised, it did nudge some better-off families into getting one. Most families did not have one until the late 50s or 60s. I would say by the late 60s most houses had one. My family first got a second hand black & white one in the 1970s.

[@richardterroni9433]

@eh1702 My dad didn't get his first color TV set until 1975 but he was one of the very late ones

[@eh1702]

It’s annoying to see people in other countries uncritically pick up these things - much of it very specific to AMERICAN culture. Gen Jones in the UK and much of Europe - let alone places like China and Japan - had parents whose own childhood experience was profoundly different from those who parented American Joneses. It makes a much more solid boundary, I think, between boomer/Jones/X than it does in the US, or in a different way. What is it to be raised by people born in a Depression and raised in a war? People who endured but rarely discussed their first memories of hunger, insecurity, deadly diseases, then rationing, being bombed (often more than those in uniform were) barely parented, education interrupted, maybe even living under enemy occupation, prematurely adultified, then entering the workforce at 14 or so, in competition with mature, upskilled Greatest Gen? This late Silent Gen were starting families in the still- austere (on THIS side of the Atlantic) 1950s by their late teens/very early 20s. The last of rationing had just ended in the UK! They were still materially very poor by today’s standards. (And in comparison with the parents of the boomers, who had their delayed families not much earlier.) Within Europe, Joneses were young adults when Solidarnosc became a whole movement, when “perestroika” became a thing, when the Berlin wall came down - were often parents by the time countries declared their independence from Moscow rule. Obviously there’s a profound difference in having spent one’s childhood and youth either under it or not. And then there’s “the Troubles” which affected Gen Jones of Britain and Ireland in various ways, whether living segregated from your neighbours, seeing soldiers in your garden, being searched when you went into town, or losing relatives. Or just taking “bomb threat” evacuations from malls, sports centres, swimming baths etc so much in stride that you didn’t think to mention it to your parents when they got home. (And yelled at the TV on 9/11, “Get t-f out of there, don’t stand rubbernecking!”) Put it this way, UK Gen Jones, who do you know, your own age, who owned a car by their mid-20s? Or even had access to their dad’s? Everyone walked themselves to school from age 5. Unlike the USA, family cars were generally “dad’s car”, and not for giving children lifts to school, scouts, sports, discos or whatever. We all knew one kid in primary school whose parents did that, and pitied and envied them. David Cassidy, the Osmonds made their way over the Atlantic, but after the Beatles, what much went the other way until the later 70s apart from Fleetwood Mac and Rod Stewart? Pomp/prog rock, a whole slew of 70s pop (Bay City Rollers, Sweet, Slade, Abba, Beegees) rock (Status Quo, ELO, 10cc) glam rock and metal - were not even part of the American musical sensibility, or not until significantly later, like David Bowie and (eventually!) Queen. The 2-tone revival, or Reggae (apart from Bob Marley, also late arriving) seems to not have registered much in the USA. Punk in the UK was profoundly different from its American incarnation. The US eventually got the Eurythmic, but not the Tourists. Northern Soul is just hard to describe and explain to Americans: Motown, but not the big, well known Motown hits, spawning in the impoverished north of England a strangely graceless, touchingly introverted yet kinda athletic dance style, and a certain dress style with it. It went the other way belatedly too: Gen Jones only heard about Springsteen from our chemistry teachers and were struck by how dated the arrangements sounded. The Beastie Boys were better known in the UK. Music was such an important part of culture - reflecting and influencing culture, lifestyle and values at the time on both sides of the Atlantic, in aggregate, it’s not a small difference.

[@chetisanhart3457]

Dad was WWII gen. Mom was silent gen. Second marraige kid, so I was born in '62. I AM NOT a Boomer. I didn't listen to Elvis and Fats Domino. I listened to Iggy Pop and Velvet Underground.

[@danawynkoop9511]

I fall into Generation Jones, but can we get a different name? We came of age with Regan, AIDS, the Challenger Explosion, and the Macintosh Computer. Maybe we can be called the Explosion Generation or the Macintosh Generation.

[@bobthebuilder9553]

Rest I agree with.

[@cowboyofscience7611]

Yeah, I was born in 1960 and I'm just gonna go ahead and sign on with Gen X, if you don't mind......

[@richardterroni9433]

I typically don't start Gen X until 1961 but I'll allow it :)

[@cowboyofscience7611]

@@richardterroni9433 As if.....

[@originalsusser]

GJones, what next? Doesn't roll off the tongue like Xennial but just as meaningless. You are or your not. I subscribe to the view a teacher taught us before Bill Idol picked up a guitar. That was the gens start at 20yrs of age & last about 20yrs peak child rearing age. I'm not a believer in the set in stone date ranges, but WW2 was a seminal moment in generational starting points. Because the Yanks came to the party late, I see 1940 as a reasonable start for Boomer, bearing in the mind the risk of death in war & all & no birth control. Again, here or there, it's not set in stone. That makes GenX around 1960, GenY-Mils 1980, GenZ 2000, Alpha's coming along as we speak. Give or take 5yrs either side & that's how I see it should be & consider makes sense. I'm born 63 & AM GenX, my mate born 1964 considers himself a boomer. It's where you are in your head & the life you lived

[@msellerby]

I like the way you are describing this, it is really made up by journalists. But you are what you consider yourself to be. But for me a generation is minimum 20 years, some people say 30 years, both are right. So for me silent generation born 1925-45, Boomers 1945-65, generation X 1965-85, millenials 1985-2005, generation Y 2005-25. This is simple and easy with lots of leeway. I was born in the early 50's and I still had the same free range childhood that people born in the 60's/70's describe. It is all up to us to find the common ground! Of course only the Baby Boom generation has a set occurrence that defines it(loosely of course). The boom of babies born after WWII was from 1946-1964. So you and your mate are both right! My ex wife was a boomer too, born 1964! 😀

[@richardterroni9433]

I somewhat agree with you although 1940 I'd probably a little early to start the Baby Boomer, I'd probably start it around 1942. 2000 seems a little too late to put the Millennial Generation until, I sort of see having a memory of 9/11 as the dividing line which puts the ending around 1996/97 or so.

[@MDKE114]

In the U.S., approximately 4 million servicemen came home from WWII in 1945. This created a sudden influx of young men getting married and those couples soon had babies. Hence the name, the Baby Boom. When I was a kid, there were a lot of teenagers. It was the largest generation for a long time and most were around ten years older then me. I'm a Gen Jones, despite that my father was a WWII veteran, but he didn't meet Mom and get married until he was in his mid 30's. I'm sure what was happening overseas was quite different. Europe was devastated and working on rebuilding, though in the U.S., we were not well informed about it.

[@zymeerwhitman8761]

I can’t keep up with the Jones ima Zillennial I’m 1992-2000 Was born 97 and my era ended in 2004 Gen z came right Zillennial

[@richardterroni9433]

Technically Gen Z but you probably have a lot of Millennial traits

[@RavenHouseMystery]

A generation is defined as around twenty years. Therefore, there can't be a Generation Jones of only ten years. They are a sub-level of Baby Boomers. As for Gen-X, we were known as latchkey kids, the lost generation and finally the MTV generation. All are subclasses of Generation X.

[@cowboyofscience7611]

I agree except I was 21 yrs old (born 1960) when MTV signed on the air....

[@RavenHouseMystery]

@@cowboyofscience7611 Which would put you in the Baby Boomers 20-year period (1945-65). It's about the period of when we grew up, not about specific dates.

[@cowboyofscience7611]

@@RavenHouseMystery No, 60-85 is Gen X PLUS according to this, I'm Gen Jones. I am the most alike with other gen Xer's (shared values, culture and history) so that makes me Gen X. Have a nice day!

[@richardterroni9433]

​@cowboyofscience7611 Gen X is probably about 61-81, however there is the MTV Generation that goes from 75-85

[@RavenHouseMystery]

@@richardterroni9433 Actually, Generation X encompasses both the latchkey and MTV Generation (65-85). Like I mentioned before, each generation has its own subclasses. The important thing is the events and culture which inspired our generation. We are after the hippie generation and before the internet generation.

[@pipe2devnull]

My mom is a boomer .. and so am I?

[@richardterroni9433]

Interesting

[@StuJones-gn7te]

This is part if what I say makes the whole concept crazy. The 1946 boomers were having kids by 1964-66. How can a group be one generation spread over 20 years? For me, "generation" only has meaning in genealogy.

[@richardterroni9433]

@StuJones-gn7te Very True although people have used 20+ years for Generations before

[@RealMuzik4]

Generation Jones are still baby boomers. Plus they’re trying to slip in to Generation X by adding 1965. They are becoming powerless and want to stay in the game. Give it up!

[@StuJones-gn7te]

No. We resent being lumped in with the f'ing hippies!!!

[@richardterroni9433]

Some are Boomers, some are Gen X

[@WinstonSmithGPT]

Who cares what you think?