Category: Generations
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Saturday Links
Here are this week's odds and ends that didn't make it to the blog. Enjoy the leftovers! 1. MIT Technology Review says Geoengineering Could Be Essential to Reducing the Risk of Climate Change. "Using technology to cool the planet may be the only way to deal with the greenhouse gases already in the atmosphere, argues…
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Beloit Mindset List for the Class of 2016
Beloit: Beloit Mindset List for the Class of 2016 Some of the ones I found interesting and fun: 8. Bill Clinton is a senior statesman of whose presidency they have little knowledge. 12. For most of their lives, maintaining relations between the U.S. and the rest of the world has been a woman’s job in…
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Millennial Generation Safe at Home
NewGeography.com: Millennial Generation Safe at Home Each emerging American generation of adolescents and young adults tends to have a distinctive relationship with its parents. For the Baby Boomers of the 1960s and 1970s, that relationship was often conflicted, even adversarial. For Generation X in the 1980s and 1990s it was frequently distant and disrespectful. By…
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Multigenerational Households
AdWeek: Multigenerational Households Number of children living with a grandparent increases While the rise of single-parent households has gotten a lot of ink, another key trend has emerged in the makeup of American households—the sharp increase in the number of children who are living with a grandparent. In 2009, 7.8 million children lived with at…