This is a book that sounds both saddening and enlightening.

And a necessary read for any boomer seeking the truth, who wonders what happened in their environs growing up that caused such a devastation that we see today in the social landscape.

(This is not unique to the West or Europe, either; nearly all under the influence of the US culture, Hollywood, media, and geopolitics are likely affected, too.)

It sounds like a tremendously compelling book.

But first—read the first few pages available on Amazon, in the “Look inside” feature.

“Boomers’ Families – How a Generation Became a Force for Destruction”

Author: Margaret Clare Devlin

Available on AMAZON.COM

NOTE: on the Amazon listing, go look up the introductory pages of the book - “A Definition of Social Engineering” - in the “Look Inside” feature of the book:
Important to read this!

REVIEW by RANDY ENGEL:

Excerpts:

This reviewer missed being cataloged as a “Baby Boomer” (1946-1964) by seven years.[1]
I was born on New Year's Eve, 1939, to Italian and Portuguese immigrant parents. My three brothers, my parents and I lived in a three-room dilapidated tenement building in Mt. Vernon, N.Y. by the railroad that took local commuters into New York City every weekday.
By today’s standards my family was poor, although I don’t remember actually thinking we were really ever that “poor” because all of our relatives and multi-ethnic neighbors were in the same economic boat. My deeply religious mother was also an excellent cook, so my brothers and I never went hungry. My father, crippled from his early twenties from a motorcycle accident, was a gifted jack-of-all-trades and somehow managed to provide us with all the necessities of life, and then some. Thanks to my mother’s sister, a professional seamstress, my brothers and I were neatly dressed for school and special occasions. The hub for all our family’s social and religious was Our Lady of Mount Carmel parish, less than half a block away from our apartment. Our church along with the local Girl’s Club bore the distinction of having the only trees in the neighborhood. Everything else was cement.
Looking back on my early childhood, I would say that life was good.
It wasn’t until my dad finally broke down and obtained a small black and white television set in the early 1950s that I became aware of the life-style of the emerging upper middle-class suburban family. For some odd reason, the image that sparked some degree of curiosity, and yes, envy, and still sticks in my mind today, is the Westinghouse refrigerator commercial featuring Betty Furness in her beautifully tailored dress, and stylishly coiffed hairdo. Our family still had an icebox, and neither my mom nor any mom I ever saw, ever dressed like Furness did in her television kitchen.
Childhood Impressions are Deceiving
Did some American families really dress like that and live in large, beautiful homes with several bathrooms and a two-car garage? Did every child have his own bedroom? How very fortunate these children were to grow up in such luxury. They must be very happy, I thought. What a perfect life they must live.
But alas, childhood impressions are often wrong – sometimes very, very wrong – as author Margaret Clare Devlin (a pseudonym) reveals in her autobiographical book Boomers’ Families How a Generation Became a Force for Destruction.
As it happens, the author is no stranger to me. I have known and admired her more than 15 years. We are good friends. To me, she has always represented the quintessential traditional Catholic, wife, and mother. So when she asked me to review her latest book which she had been working on and off for more two decades, I said yes, as I was delighted to have the opportunity to learn more about her life and background.
Unfortunately, what I anticipated to be a relatively happy venture, turned out to be just the opposite. It was one of shock and sorrow. I can only imagine how deeply the actual writing of the book must have affected the author especially the chapters dealing with the unspeakable crime of abortion. Had not the story’s end been an amazing testimony to how the grace of God can transform our habituated sinful lives, and bring good out of evil, I’m not sure I’d be writing this lengthy review at all.
An Unusual Format
Boomers’ Families follows an unusual format. The non-fiction autobiographical text is a combination of narrative in which Devlin describes her own life and experiences as an offspring of G.I. parents; and analysis, in which the author delves into those ideologies and societal practices that caused the Boomer generation to implode and explode into a “force for destruction” as the subtitle indicates.
I, myself, was more interested in the former, that is, Margaret’s own personal story – than in her detailed analysis of the many forces that entered into the destruction of not one, but many subsequent generations of Americans, including the influence of Marxist and Humanist ideologies; radical familial and social engineering practices; the culture war; and the systematic destruction of Christianity, in particular, of the Roman Catholic Church.
So, I’ll formally begin this review with the narrative.
A Narrative of Familial Self-Destruction
By any standards of outward appearances the life of the Catholic Scheeben family appeared idyllic.
A beautiful country home in the mid-west, financial security, well-educated parents, and five seemingly happy children – Barbara, the first born, Paul, the oldest son; his brother Richard, Mark, the youngest son, and the youngest daughter, Margaret Clare (Devlin), the author.
What then went wrong?
How did this seemingly “ideal” American family manage to produce such a tragic assortment of out-of-control, hippie, narcissistic, cursing, promiscuous, porno-loving, suicidal, pro-abortion, cultic, thieving, and lying second Boomer-generation children?
If I were to summarize the author’s answer in one word it would be the sin of LIBERALISM.

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For many parents of the Boomer Generation, and parents of subsequent generations as well, the reading of Boomers’ Families will no doubt ignite a myriad of different thoughts and emotions. And while there must exist some parents whose children and/or close relatives have totally escaped the ravages of the anti-God, anti-life, anti-family revolutionary movements described by Devlin, I admit to never having met one.
This is one reason I am recommending this book to all readers, along with some final thoughts and observations on family life.
We all know that God sends children to help their parents grow up, but alas, there are some mothers and fathers who never grow up. Many parents of the Boomer Generation like the Scheeben family fit this description. It’s a reminder that while each generation will inevitably grow older, there is no guarantee that it will grow in wisdom and holiness.

[ . . . ] [SEE REVIEW for this intervening content]

FINALLY:

These are serious questions which Devlin had to face in writing Boomers Families.
They are also the same questions that readers might well be asking themselves as they read the last chapter of the book titled “The Verdict.”
It took a very brave soul to write Boomers’ Families.
Now it’s your turn to read this remarkable work. I guarantee it will become one of your most treasured reference books for years to come.

READ THE REST:→ Book review by Randy Engel of Boomers’ Families – How a Generation Became a Force for Destruction

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