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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]As a millennial, can we stop blaming this on millennials? I wasn't helicopter parented, but was an only child that received everything. I've worked hard, saved hard and made good choices (went to college and no kids before marriage). There will always be deadbeat men, but we need to force people to work harder and succeed. My parents have always advocated for hand ups not hand outs.[/quote]

I am also a millennial, and I agree with this as well.  There are always going to be people who mess up, regardless of how they are parented.  I have so many peers who are self-directed and have done well, and honestly, hearing my older cousins' and parents' friends stories, t[b]here are plenty of Gen-Xers and baby boomers who spent their 20s goofing off and being completely directionless[/b].  If anything, more of my peers are somewhat pragmatic due to how dismal the job market is these days.  Most of the issues with depression I see have to do with completely legitimate worries about finding employment.[/quote]

I have no idea where I fall in the categories (1980 birth?), but lets be honest, the idea that Gen Xers  and older, who are so over-represented on DCUM, were somehow different than the next generations with what they did in their 20s is laughable. Just see what happens when someone mentions getting married and having kids in their 20s on here- everyone chimes in with all the "work" they had to do on their career, lives, travel and self before doing that and not being willing to give that up for settling down (hey, I'm one of them, but I own it).

That entirely different from being a deadbeat like is being described by OP (sorry for the harsh words OP, but its what it sounds like). But its certainly not generational. Extended adolescence (albiet with money because of working in careers/jobs) has been the norm far before the millennials![/quote]

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