By Thom Rainer and Jess Rainer
This was an interesting book. It was full of statistics and information about the current generation of young people and was very informative. I found I tended to skim it a bit as the authors sometimes spent a bit too much time in detailing things I didn't care about, but it was certainly interesting to see the main points of the book and see the overall trends of this generation pointed it. I can see much of it in looking at myself and my contemporaries, but it is always nice to have it reviewed in a nice summary like this.
One of the main points brought out by the authors is that we are a connected generation. We tend to be very connected to our families and parents and we tend to use technology to enhance this. Another observation is that our generation has seen what divorce and separation have done to our friends or ourselves and have vowed not to do the same thing to our kids. The authors found that most Millennials who were planning to have kids intended to never put their kids through the pain of divorce. One other defining characteristic of our generation seems to be a lack of interest in religion. There isn't usually animosity towards religion, but rather disinterest or little to no knowledge about it. We are a massive generation; as big or bigger than the baby boomers, so it will be interesting to see how our culture changes as we continue to grow up.
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