gen xER'S
Posted on 05/02/2005 8:31:54 AM PDT by qam1
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So, if this really is happening, is it because we coddled these kids and didn't teach them how to compete?
A little of both, and you can throw in being on the wrong end of the Social Security Ponzi scheme.
Would you rather have them depending on their families or depending on welfare? With housing prices what they are sometimes that is the option. It's not always about being sponges. Anyway, if the parents agree to it it's nobody else's business.
The only way I would move back in with my parents is if the other choice was living under a bridge.
I can't under people who do that.
This is going to play havoc with all the adults putting off having children into their late 30's or 40'. Can you see having your kids around when you're in your 70s?
Having a tough time understand all this....especially the whinning about high cost homes, no high-paying factory jobs, blah, blah, blah. It never crossed my mind to return home after leaving for college and graduating. This, without a high-paying factory job, in high-housing S. California, during the high-interest, high gas price Carter years.
The book that I am reading right now talks about this very subject. What you are saying is true and so far everything that anyone has posted on this thread is equally true. But where we went wrong is like you said we coddled these kids. One other aspect that will probably be missed is that the support network that people used to have is no longer what it used to be. Years ago people would marry younger but even then you had relatives real close by to lend a helping hand that is not the case today.
Yeah, this guy has a lot of practical experience to offer /sarcasm!!!!!
Yep, and then as soon as they DO get out of the house they start in wth the "greediest generation! Euthanize them. How DARE they take a paid vacation for the rest of their lives just because they hit sixty=five."
Obviously they didn't want to work in kitchens, phone banks, etc. Those jobs were taken by foreigners because "nobody wanted them".
Our high tech world has automated and otherwise eliminated a lot of job positions (secretaries are still around but these days, everyone with a desk can type, including the boss).
Babyboomers are quick to pull their own into a workforce, considering younger talent a threat. Also some boomers will see a fellow boomer with a divorce and kids to support. That young college graduate can wait awhile, he doesn't have "responsibilities".
There IS age discrimination in the workplace. It isn't just on the older scale either.
That does not explain fully why things are at this state, then again, 100 years ago it was not shameful for a family to remain close and even to provide for grandparents as they got older.
Too late.........sigh.
gen xER'S
well all i can say is if / when i have kids they are going to have to pay for college on their own which may mean GI Bill ROTC right out of high school
All I know is that at (not quite) 28 years old, I make more money than either of my parents and have lived on my own since I graduated from college. I couldn't wait to move out! I don't know how these people can do this.
I would absolutely hate having to move back with my parents. No way!
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