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What Generation Parented Millennials?

Sarah Jenkins • • 6 min read
What Generation Parented Millennials?

Most millennials are the children of baby boomers and early Gen Xers

Gen Xers
By this definition and U.S. Census data, there are 65.2 million Gen Xers in the United States as of 2019. Most members of Generation X are the children of the Silent Generation and early boomers; Xers are also often the parents of millennials and Generation Z.
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; Millennials are often the parents of Generation Alpha.

Which generation is Gen Z?

Generation Z (aka Gen Z, iGen, or centennials), refers to the generation that was born between 1997-2012, following millennials. This generation has been raised on the internet and social media, with some of the oldest finishing college by 2020 and entering the workforce.

What will babies born in 2021 be called?

Generation Alpha (or Gen Alpha for short) is the demographic cohort succeeding Generation Z. Researchers and popular media use the early 2010s as starting birth years and the mid-2020s as ending birth years.

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