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Baby boomers aren't paying for college so the kids have alot of debt. Divorce if so high that these kids have no one helping them make decisions because their parents are too concerned with themselves. 20 year olds now have to pay auto insurance, health care, and high taxes on everything. When I moved out in the 70's, car insurance was an option, health care was cheap, renting was cheap, gas for my car was 70 cents, ciggs were 50 cents.

Good points too. You got so much crap that we have to put up with today that you didn't back then and it costs more. I know in one post, I mentioned about life prior to World War II and how hard economically it was in th cities, but at least back then, you could hopefully get out of there and go out in the country and do something.

Also these kids are lied too. College is NOT for everyone. You still have to have a high IQ to graduate in a good major. Yet the boomers want their kids to go to college , take out loans and let the tax payer worry about them paying it back.

I think the college mentra started during Vietnam, at least for men because it was a way to get out of the draft. Even if you took "advanced basket weaving" (I know, hyperbole, but you see what I mean) in college, you were still in college hopefully biding your time until you got too old for the draft. College ain't for everyone, myself, I think I would have waited a few year before I went.

The boomers aren't paying for college so the kids can take their time to graduate, 5-7 years, and the parents don't care what they major in. We payed college for all of our 5 children, and they were private schools. I TOLD them not to waste our money and to major in serious fields. I TOLD them they had to get a job when they got out and to make as much money as we do, they'll have to go to graduate school. So now we have 2 nurses, 2 doctors, and 1 lawyer. We also payed for thier professional schools and gave them an allowance. They had to be accountable to us along the way and heed our advice or we weren"t going to pay! With college loans kids do not have to be accountable to anyone.

I also monitored their grades and IQ. If they wern't smart enough to go to college and major in a difficult field, I wanted to know. I didn't want to lie to them and spend money on college if I knew they couldn't handle it. If professional school was not an option, I would have told them to go into plumbling or open a business in an field they liked, etc. I wanted to know who they were and direct them where they would excell.

Boomers also make their high school kids pay for auto insurance. We paid for theirs, so they would be accountable to us at all times when in the cars. They had to get our permission to use the cars.

The Boomer's kids feel they aren't accountable to anyone especially with public schools and college loans. Also, many of these older children are living at home because the parents have alot of quilt due to divorce.

But staying close to the family and your parents is a good thing.