Every Generation has their own "once-in-a-century-crisis" Most have more than one. My parents suffered from both the Great Depression and WWII. Both of those had much worse impacts than any 21st century crisis has yet to manifest. How many Boomers were hit hard by the Vietnam War, the collapse of the Rust Belt, the loss of their retirement savings in the Dot Com bust, losing their home to the mortgage crisis and died from COVID.

I am past tired of people falsely characterizing people by generational cohort. We are not our generation, we are individuals and most of us are not typical.

Being a Millennial does not make you lazy. Being a Millennial just means some things Boomers lived through are only history to you.

I think the Pandemic is much harder on Boomers than other generations.

Regarding being a adult, it is not about owning a home or having children or having a steady job. Being an adult is about accepting responsibility for your life and asserting your independence. When a child becomes independent they then become an adult. The situations may make it harder to become and independent adult. I have adult children. In my generational cohort I know people who were force to be adult at 18 years of age. Got drafted or got kicked out of the house when they got their high school diploma. My tiny remaining dependence on my parents ended at age 22 in 1980. I was an adult with a job, no children, renting a place to live. I was adulting, I was paying my bills and making my own decisions. That is adulting. You don't need to own a house and have kids to be an adult.

TEK