{"id":36466,"date":"2026-06-02T08:28:31","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T06:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/preprod26.howtospa.com\/2026\/06\/02\/baby-boomer-millennial-or-gen-z-moms-how-each-generation-of-mothers-has-transformed-motherhood\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T08:28:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T06:28:31","slug":"baby-boomer-millennial-or-gen-z-moms-how-each-generation-of-mothers-has-transformed-motherhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preprod26.howtospa.com\/en\/2026\/06\/02\/baby-boomer-millennial-or-gen-z-moms-how-each-generation-of-mothers-has-transformed-motherhood\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby-boomer, Millennial, or Gen Z moms: how each generation of mothers has transformed motherhood."},"content":{"rendered":"
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We have the degree. The job. The kids. We read books on attachment, follow gentle parenting accounts, and are mindful of how we speak to our children. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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And yet, at the end of the day, there is that fatigue one cannot quite name. A profound fatigue. The fatigue of a mother\u2014regardless of her generation\u2014who gives everything and has forgotten to save a little something for herself. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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If you recognize yourself in these lines, it\u2019s likely because you are a millennial mom. And what you are experiencing has a name, a context, and\u2014above all\u2014an explanation. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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But to truly understand where we stand, we need to look further. Three generations of mothers\u2014Baby Boomers, Millennials, and Gen Z\u2014each of whom has transformed motherhood in her own way. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Heritage: where we come from<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Baby-boomer moms: the ones who broke what they could.<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Baby boomers born between 1946 and 1964 became mothers between the 1970s and 1990s. The context was radically different from ours: mental health was an absolute taboo, children’s emotions were not a priority in child-rearing, and parental authority was unquestionable. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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But here is what is often forgotten: many Baby Boomer mothers grew up in even harsher conditions. The Cold War, post-war reconstruction, normalized violence in child-rearing, and a complete lack of psychological support systems. Their own parents adhered to codes of conduct with a rigidity we can only imagine. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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And yet, many of them consciously or intuitively decided to do things differently\u2014driven by a quiet determination not to repeat certain patterns, and without the tools we have today at their disposal. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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It is this invisible work\u2014done without language, without community, and without validation\u2014that made what we do today possible. Baby-boomer moms laid the foundation stones. We are continuing to build. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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What they passed on\u2014often without realizing it\u2014was permission to want something better, even without knowing how.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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What science says about the invisible legacy<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n
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Epigenetics research now shows that intense stress experienced by one generation leaves measurable biological traces in the nervous systems of subsequent generations, without them having chosen it (Yehuda et al., 2016, Biological Psychiatry).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In other words: we inherit not only our mother’s physical traits, but also what she didn’t have the chance to leave behind somewhere.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Our parents broke what they could, with what they had. We don’t erase their work; we carry it forward. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The present: who we are and what we carry<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Millennial moms: conscious, informed, exhausted<\/h5>\n

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Millennials are people born between 1981 and 1996. They grew up alongside the rise of the internet, lived through the 2008 financial crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic\u2014experiencing the advent of the internet just as they were coming of age\u2014and became mothers in a rapidly changing world. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The millennial mom is the one who:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n