The Last Baby Boomers were born in 1964.

[misanthrope]

17. I know grandparents born after 1964

I also know parents of the latest young adults who were born in the 1950s. Our ideas and definitions of generations is kind of screwed up. It is more accurately defined by life experiences.

My grandparents endured Depression-era childhood, fought WWII then started their families in the post-War Boom. They enjoyed the mythological fruits of those heady economic times. Greatest Generation? Sure.

My parents remember when televisions first became a presence in every house. They were in college in the 1960s. Their peers who served in the armed forces were Vietnam vets. My father's younger sister was a self-styled hippie who graduated college and lit out for the West Coast to exercise her bohemian proclivities.

I was a latchkey kid, made so by my parents' divorce during my grade school years. Mom was a single, working mother, a fast-growing demographic in that era. My first detailed political memory was Watergate and the Reagan era began in my adolescence. I remember the rise of television miniseries, cable TV and video games. My peers who saw combat were Desert Storm vets.

However if you go by conventional definitions, I'm a Baby Boomer born in '64. But if you look at our life experiences, our perspectives on society and politics then it is clear my parents are Boomers while my sister and I are Gen Xers.

Those yearly parameters are to be considered general guidelines, not strict definitions.