Abstract—Family is a basic form of social life while marriage
is a prerequisite for family formation. Marriage takes various
forms in different periods in the same country; and family
values vary in different historical periods and under different
historical conditions. Influenced by the counterculture
movement in the 1960s, Generation X, the offspring of the baby
boomers, have inherited the rebellious and challenging spirit
against the traditional American mainstream marriage and
family values; meanwhile, affected by the rise of
neo-conservatism and anti-feminist movement, Generation X
have approved of and thus returned to the traditional American
marriage and family values. By interpreting the novel of
Generation X from literary and historical perspectives, the
marriage and family values of Generation X have been analyzed
and elaborated.
Index Terms—Generation X, marriage and family values,
Hippies, baby boomers, Coupland.
Bingtian Zhang is with the School of Fundamental Studies, Shanghai
University of Engineering Science, Shanghai, 201620 P. R. China (e-mail:
bingtianzhang@sues.edu.cn).
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Cite: Bingtian Zhang, " Rebellion and Return: Probing into the Marriage and
Family Values of Generation X," International Journal of Social Science and Humanity vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 473-V00023, 2015.