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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Listen to yesterday's episode on NAFTA. I don't think it's a coincidence that after NAFTA is when parenting expectations began skyrocketing.

[b]There aren't enough good jobs for everyone. That's what it's all really about. [/b]

I predict the US is headed in the same direction as South Korea. [/quote]

I totally agree with this. Ross Perot and "giant sucking sound of jobs being pulled out of this country" lives rent free in my head.[/quote]

This is the answer. Parents could chill in the past knowing that even if their kids did poorly in school they'd have a chance to get it together, learn a trade and have a middle class life. That expectation is gone. No one on my mom's side of the family went to college and they all still managed to buy new houses, new cars, take a vacation every year and save plenty for retirement.
Now it's a struggle from birth to ensure that your child will be middle class. The only parents who aren't worried are like the Sephora mom raising her daughter to be a sugar baby. The rest of us are stressed.[/quote]

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