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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When people had kids much younger than they do now, that created more generational layers to provide support. If you were a great-grandparent by age 75 or 80, you might rely on your kids or your grandkids for help. Now, people aren't even becoming grandparents until they're in their 70s, leaving the burden to fall on kids in their 40s who are still raising young kids. And since many older folks aren't dying until their 90s, there's no inheritance until their kids are in their 70s.[/quote]

And that's assuming there is 1- any money left for an inheritance and 2- if there happens to be an inheritance that you will get anything. I knew a woman, former co-worker in her 40's unmarried/ no children, who was a caretaker to her mother for a decade. Did everything. The father died when she was in her 20's. Her 2 siblings were no help. One lived halfway across the country and had their own life. Another was a jobless mooch who lived wherever there was a couch that would accommodate him and only popped in when he wanted money.
When her mom died she left the family home and all the contents and what was left in the bank to the son because she figured he needed it the most since the lived far away sibling was married and her caretaker daughter had a steady job and her own place to live. Never understimate the twisted rationale of a parent.  
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