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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 711778" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>Old Hand, as one of the truly struggling, I feel jobs are scarce, employers have all the power and thwy dont want to pay. This started for me with GWB (not necessarily because of him..itis a timeline) and to me never let up. Healthcare is sbout to becone scarce for lower income people too. Its scary to me and to snyone without much extra.</p><p></p><p>I think your words are very valid. This generation is the first to be less fruitful than their parents. Young kids (and older) struggle at an unprecedented rate of single mothers, divorce, infancy in daycare...cut off family time. I fear for my nine year old grandson who has both been in daycare since six weeks and now has to go back and forth like a ping pong ball because his folks are divorced. New societal norms do not place value on long term relationships or family like it oncr did. People divorce not just because of physical abuse but because "im bored." It sends a weak message about relationships in my opinion.</p><p></p><p>In this sense I feel our millenials had it much worse than us. I am guilty of divorce too and it did hurt my three olest kids. Divorce is never good for kids. A result of all this? I think i read that millenials have the lowest marriage rate ever recorded at about 36%.;They rightfully dont see marriage as important as we did. Or giving kids a stable home.</p><p></p><p>I think if anything, the unstable lives of many of our millrnials, mine too, contributes to their issues. We dont want to blame ourselves or our generation so wr blame TV and videogames. Its not so personal. But I think it is a lot us, including me.</p><p></p><p>Work, kids bouncing from parent to parent, afterschpol care, maybe too many activities, not enough dinner together or family time...this is where I see the huge difference between them and us. And we feel guilty so we give them stuff.</p><p></p><p>I dont see how this isnt partly on us. And again, this includes myself.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 711778, member: 1550"] Old Hand, as one of the truly struggling, I feel jobs are scarce, employers have all the power and thwy dont want to pay. This started for me with GWB (not necessarily because of him..itis a timeline) and to me never let up. Healthcare is sbout to becone scarce for lower income people too. Its scary to me and to snyone without much extra. I think your words are very valid. This generation is the first to be less fruitful than their parents. Young kids (and older) struggle at an unprecedented rate of single mothers, divorce, infancy in daycare...cut off family time. I fear for my nine year old grandson who has both been in daycare since six weeks and now has to go back and forth like a ping pong ball because his folks are divorced. New societal norms do not place value on long term relationships or family like it oncr did. People divorce not just because of physical abuse but because "im bored." It sends a weak message about relationships in my opinion. In this sense I feel our millenials had it much worse than us. I am guilty of divorce too and it did hurt my three olest kids. Divorce is never good for kids. A result of all this? I think i read that millenials have the lowest marriage rate ever recorded at about 36%.;They rightfully dont see marriage as important as we did. Or giving kids a stable home. I think if anything, the unstable lives of many of our millrnials, mine too, contributes to their issues. We dont want to blame ourselves or our generation so wr blame TV and videogames. Its not so personal. But I think it is a lot us, including me. Work, kids bouncing from parent to parent, afterschpol care, maybe too many activities, not enough dinner together or family time...this is where I see the huge difference between them and us. And we feel guilty so we give them stuff. I dont see how this isnt partly on us. And again, this includes myself. [/QUOTE]
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