1. The information on this page has been adapted with permission from William Strauss and Neil Howe, Generations: The History of America's Future, 1584 to 2069 (New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1991) and Strauss and Howe, The Fourth Turning: An American Prophecy (New York: Broadway Books [Bantam-Doubleday-Dell], 1997). See also Strauss and Howe, Millennials Rising: The Next Great Generation (New York: Vintage, 2000). For more information on historical generations and how generational theory can help predict the future, visit Strauss and Howe's fourthturning.com and lifecourse.com sites. [Back to your place.]

2. Strauss and Howe (1991), p. 74; Strauss and Howe (1997), p. 137. [Back to your place.]

3. Strauss and Howe (1997), p. 243. [Back to your place.]

4. Ibid., p. 244, citing Ellen Goodman, "Out of School and Into Trouble," Washington Post (July 13, 1996). [Back to your place.]

5. Ibid., p. 245. [Back to your place.]

6. Ibid., pp. 245-46, citing summary of surveys in "Balancing Act, Scale Tips Toward Family," USA Today (1995); "Can Your Career Hurt Your Kids?" Fortune (May 20, 1991). [Back to your place.]

7. Ibid., p. 246, citing "How to Win a Kingdom," The New York Times (September 16, 1995); James Gabarino, Raising Children in a Socially Toxic Environment (1995). [Back to your place.]

8. Ibid., citing Michael J. Sandel, "Easy Virtue," New Republic (September 2, 1996). [Back to your place.]

9. Ibid., pp. 246-47, citing Jane Bryant Quinn's essay in Washington Post (May 31, 1992). [Back to your place.]

10. Ibid., p. 247, citing "Sales of Uniforms Are Looking Sharp," Wall Street Journal (August 22, 1995); "School Uniforms Growing in Favor in California," The New York Times (September 3, 1994); "School Uniforms," Wall Street Journal (September 3, 1991). [Back to your place.]

11. Ibid., citing Hillary Rodham Clinton, It Takes a Village (1996). [Back to your place.]

12. Ibid., citing "Fed Up with Schools, More Parents Turn to Teaching at Home," Wall Street Journal (May 10, 1994). [Back to your place.]

13. Ibid., pp. 247-48, citing William Bennett, The Book of Virtues (1993). [Back to your place.]

14. Ibid., p. 248. [Back to your place.]

15. Ibid., p. 249. [Back to your place.]

16. Ibid., p. 250, citing William Damon, in "The Moral Child," U.S. News and World Report (June 3, 1996). [Back to your place.]

17. Ibid., p. 251. [Back to your place.]

18. Ibid., p. 292, citing William Manchester, The Glory and the Dream: A Narrative History of America, 1932-1972 (1974), p. 89; Malcolm Cowley, Exile's Return (1934, 1951 ed.), p. 294; Malcolm Cowley and Robert Cowley (eds.), Fitzgerald and the Jazz Age (1966), pp. 48-49; Strauss and Howe (1991), pp. 252-53, 498; National Center for Health Statistics, Health, United States, 1987 (1988), table 31; Herbert Hendin (ed.), Suicide in America (1982), ch. 2; Morton Kramer et al., Mental Disorders/Suicide (1972), p. 207. [Back to your place.]

19. Ibid., p. 292-93, citing Gene Shuford, in Calvin B. T. Lee, The Campus Scene, 1900-1970 (1970), p. 36; President Franklin Roosevelt, speech, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (September 20, 1940); Strauss and Howe (1991), pp. 267-68, 501; Warren Miller, American National Election Studies Data Sourcebook, 1952-1978 (1980); Norman H. Nie et al., The Changing American Voter (1976), pp. 85-87; Angus Campbell et al., The American Voter (1960), p. 148; Roosevelt, radio address to the Young Democratic Clubs of America (1935), in E. Taylor Parks and Lois F. Parks (eds.), Memorable Quotations of Franklin D. Roosevelt (1965), p. 41; George Catlett Marshall, in Ronald Reagan, speech to Republican National Convention (September 15, 1988). [Back to your place.]

20. Ibid., p. 293. [Back to your place.]

21. Ibid., p. 294. [Back to your place.]

22. Ibid., p. 295, citing Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here (1935). [Back to your place.]

23. Ibid., pp. 295-96. [Back to your place.]

24. Strauss and Howe (1991), pp. 422-23 (the material for this entire page on the Millennial Generation midlife). [Back to your place.]

25. Ibid., pp. 423-24 (the material for this entire page on the Millennial Generation elderhood). [Back to your place.]