Posted on 04/21/2006 11:56:05 AM PDT by Incorrigible
And according to most studies, Baby Boomers do not have sufficient savings to last them for their expected lifetimes given that they will still likely see 65 as a retirement point.
Then you have the the above confusion about who's kids are going to take care of who; when in fact, the kids are going to be working so hard to pay taxes to support all these Boomers that they won't have time to take care of them!
Woe Is Me, Me, Me [Generation X/Reagan]
As ye sow, so shall ye reap!
I would be very wary of marrying anyone already twice divorced. Of course the advantage is that as people age, I think their expectations wrt a spouse are more realistic (lower?). Good luck to her and her third husband!
A very telling comment, which I think encapsulates the problem with those who identify themselves as "boomers" (which is not everybody born during that time period, btw).
This is essentially an "all about me" mentality that reached its pinnacle with people like Bill Clinton and Newt Gingrich.
X gen kids expect parents to make it on Social Security.
Look closer and you'll see the left's destructive take over during the 50s, 60s, and 70s, was led by the WWII generation, not a bunch of children and teenagers.
Now that they need the family, they regret having destoryed it when it was convenient for them.
Is this suppossed to be a sign of a healthy relationship to her? Man, no wonder she has had so many husbands. Sounds like she still has a lot of work to do, which means more life stages and according to her she has a new husband for each life stage so . . . I think we all know where this one is heading. Right now she must be going through the "i don't fight with my husband and thus it must be right" life stage. I can't wait until she hits the I am a sinner that is humble before God and I fear his wrath thus I get down on my knees and pray for his forgiveness and guidance each day according to His word stage, although I won't hold my breath.
The level of divorce experienced by the early boomers is worrisome, Hughes says, because marital status affects both health and wealth. Married people live longer. The divorced are at greater risk for health problems, even after remarriage
Maybe the new survival of the fittest! Who would of thunk, way back in the nasty little sixties that the fittest were the one's with the gonies to marry and stay married. It is easy to run away all the time and blame others, maybe this laziness will die out with their species.
As far as the money, I now see these guys in wheelchairs organizing in the streets demanding the richer married folks pay for them to live and get healthcare and their children, knowing they won't inherit anything marching along with them, but only for the money so they can continue to not have jobs and play video games at fifty.
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Love it! LOL. It is so true.
Marriage takes sacrifice and putting someone else's interests first-- something the Me Generation didn't learn. They're reaping what they they sowed.
"Many of these ties are going to be frail," says Mary Elizabeth Hughes, a Duke University sociologist who has studied the boomers. "They don't have the glue that previous ties did."
You make your bed then you sleep in it.
Although Bill has had one long marriage, and Newt's up to number three so far. ;)
"I believe I needed a different husband for each stage of my life. I feel like there was a reason for each person."
It's almost funny that there is no recognition in this remark of ANOTHER person in the union.
Almost...
While thankfully we never get all that we deserve we do have to at least pay part of the bill.
When you treat people as disposable commodities to be used and tossed it will come back to bite you.
Thats where euthanasia will come in!!!!
Don't you mean one long "marriage of convenience"?
Will adult children look after an elderly step-parent with the same devotion they would show a parent?
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