Football players kneeling during the national anthem are in solidarity with this movement, protestingВ police shootings of unarmed young black men. Not that there isnвЂ™t a politically charged example connected to the NFL, by which I mean the Black Lives Matter movement. For Millennials, a protocol is coming into place to reduce the prevalence of injuries in the first place. An enormous settlement was agreed upon, which has benefited retired Gen-X players, but only after they sustained the injuries in the first place. The research into the problem began in the Gen-X era, but it was only ten years ago that the U.S. Sexual harassment in the workplace has long been covered up by HR departments and endured by female employees, but in the Millennial era this may not be possible, or desirable, any more.ДЄ less politically charged example is the new concern over reducing concussions to football players in the National Football League. Since then, a flood of accusations has led to the downfall of many men in high places. This took off last year as a viral social media hashtag when a prominent Hollywood producer was accused by multiple women of sexual harassment. These problems were tolerated when they affected previous generations вЂ“ but no more.ДЄ prominent example which can be thought of as zero tolerance policies reaching the workplace is the Me Too movement and its effects. Political change may be stymied by partisanship, but a wave of social movements has risen in response to long-standing problems. Now that we are in the Millennial young adulthood era, the impetus for social change has shifted to the adult sphere of life. I wrote about this on my old blog nearly twenty years ago. A wave of social change in the direction of increased child protection came in the form of mandatory safety rules, zero tolerance policies, and laws named after child victims (for example, MeganвЂ™s Law). In the Millennial generationвЂ™s childhood era, which began way back in the 1980s, children benefited from a new focus on child-rearing. So letвЂ™s start with the last item on the list. For evidence, I will simply consider the kinds of news stories that have been prevalent on social media and the web in the past decade. LetвЂ™s look at the remaining items on the list of predictions about the Millennial generation вЂ“ that Millennials will heroically rise to political challenge, that they will develop a sense of generational community, and that they will benefit from a new focus on the young-adult world. IвЂ™m going to return to looking at the list of patterns to expect for the living generations in the current social era, the Crisis Era in Strauss & Howe terms, picking up where I left off a few months back.

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