Eliza Bailey observes from antenatal classes that grandparents ’might not agree with modern guidance’, and considers what the Bible has to say.
’Honour your father and mother’. Is there a more controversial command in 2024? For millennials like myself, this command is a particularly difficult pill to swallow—and we may be hurting ourselves as a result.
Born between 1981-1996, the millennial experience has been characterised by the financial insecurity caused by the 2008 crash. It is no surprise, therefore, that much resentment is directed towards our own parents’ generation, the ‘baby boomers’ - a cohort dubbed the ‘luckiest generation in history’ due to their relative prosperity. We clash over everything, from house prices to work to (famously) avocados, and the divide sometimes seems intractable.
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