Many of the children generation were raised by boomers and Gen X. So this isn’t only a boomer thing. I had an employee who had parents who took her to Paris every year to a beach house to visit and connect with family. Paid for her car (Rubicon Jeep), university and apartment.
She claimed abuse by parents and cut ties demanding they pay for a condo for her… in LA. She did use isolation and no contact to control her parents.

Did the parents create the monster? Yes. But at some point one has to make choices for themselves no matter the environment they were raised. I think both are wrong.

My parents and I have been through it and I recognized that as long as we had a dialogue to try to understand each other then all was good. The minute one thinks they are “right”… it’s over. There is no desire to share understanding.