I think it has to do with the activities the kids are in then anything else. You would not believe the back and forth my wife and I do carting 4 kids to various activities and sports. It is insane. Starting at 0530 for swimming (1 kid), diving (another kid), Lacrossse (2 kids), wrestling (1 kid), girl scouts (1 kid), basketball (1 kid), Confirmation practice (1 kid). Yes I have a 17 year old who I could not imagine having a job. There is no way to fit a job into a schedule today. Yes we have to pay the tab on all but my parents did for us. None of us had jobs either and we turned out great quite frankly.
has to do with the activities the kids are in
No, there just aren’t that many entry level jobs in Obama’s economy. My daughter had a heck of a time finding one, but she finally did.
I believe it.
I’m glad that I grew up when the “tredmill” wasn’t necessary for kids.
Illegals and Lefty work place rules, including minimum wage. Teens don’t need to earn a ‘living’ wage. They need to learn how to make a living.
I was in football/track/tennis/gymnastics and managed to work part time and engage in the activities. It was different in the ‘60s and if one wanted to work, there were more avenues to do it. The jobs so many complain about as not paying enough to support a family rarely had those trying to raise a family employed in them (other than the manager positions) and part time teens made up the bulk of them. I would see schoolmates when they came into the places I worked and when I went to the ice cream shop, etc., on my travels. Today, the economy sucks so bad that those jobs are filled by unqualified-for-anything-else or qualified-but-no-jobs-available adults and the teens have been pushed out of what used to be a typical teen-type job.
I learned to swim, dive, wrestle etc. without any formal classes and while working on the farm cutting firewood, growing and harvesting crops, feeding livestock etc. with ZERO formal classes in those things. The employment rate for teenagers then was nearly one hundred percent, those who didn’t live and work on the farm usually had part time jobs in stores or summer construction work etc.