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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My husband and I are Gen X (born in 70s) while his sister is a Millennial (born in 80s). There is a noticeable difference in how his parents treat us (50 with children) and his sister (30s no children). Notably - they give her all sorts of money and support ("people in their 30s are having such a hard time right now") and have never offered to support us at all - not even when DH was unemployed for a full year and we were dipping into our savings to make ends meet. Meanwhile, they just handed his sister $250K for a down payment on a condo. She HAD the money to buy it herself, and she still took the gift. So yeah, I agree, Gen X just gets ignored.[/quote]

I believe that boomers think of their childless children as “still getting started” while their kids with families are “established”. Husbands sister is LATE 30s and my ILs still pay some of her bills and give her extravagant presents. She travels and goes out to eat. We have way more need for money since we are raising children but they wouldn’t dream of giving us anything and frankly i wouldn’t want to take it. FIL refers to her as younger than us when she is three months younger than I am.[/quote]

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