February 4, 2005

Destroying the Myths About Baby Boomers

By PETER MONAGHAN

Are baby boomers stereotyped? Plenty of them came of age not in the 1960s and 1970s, but in the Reagan era, and that just begins to suggest their diversity, says Angela M. O'Rand, a professor of sociology at Duke University. She and a Duke colleague, Mary Elizabeth Hughes, in their study, "The Lives and Times of the Baby Boomers" (Russell Sage Foundation/Population Reference Bureau), surveyed popular-media images from the last decade to gauge what myths have beset this prominent generation.

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