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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This may sound callous but the constant posting on social media, the keeping up with the Joneses, the constant look at me pregnancies and prop babies and portrayal of a perfect family life is largely to blame here. I would venture to say very few, if any, millennials have the life skills, stamina, and grit to raise three kids successfully. They live on social media and if and when they finally encounter real life they sink. These people had no business having kids.[/quote]

Why are you blaming millennials here? Blame the generation that raised them.

Here’s a great example. My grandparents were heavily involved in my life. My dad traveled a lot for work and my mom wanted an extra set of hands. My sister and I both now have kids and my mom is nowhere to be found. Sister and I both settled down within 20 miles of where my mom lived / we grew up… and mom decided to move 2 hours away and sold off her paid off house. She has never once watched our kids or even offered. She and her boyfriend are 55 (parents have been divorced for 20ish years, retired (him) and was a SAH parent (her), with all the time in the world. They don’t travel or volunteer or have much of a social circle. They are just… chillin in the woods, lol.  But what about all the help she received when she was in the thick of it? To take and take, not “pay it back”, and then complain she doesn’t have a relationship with her grandkids is absurd. Both my sister and I have grown our own villages and of course, we have each other. But to slam an entire generation when they are not receiving the “village” that they grew up seeing, is ridiculous. [/quote]
I believe we are sold a false picture of what parenting, particularly parenting in this day and age, actually involves. Generally speaking, we are not prepared for parenting, you can blame our parents, but I blame our current social media obsessed society/culture. It’s really gone to sh!t in the past 20 years or so. People can’t even support themselves, parenting is definitely not for everyone, even white middle class nurses. Many people have zero idea of what parenting involves. I used to babysit as a young teenager, do kids even babysit anymore? No, because they must post to instagram all day, no time for learning useful life skills.[/quote]
That is a really odd take to have. Parents of yesteryear were much younger and had fewer years of formal education. Yet, I don’t think they were any less prepared to be parents than ones in the modern day. 
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The huge difference between then and now is the majority of parents back then, mothers in particular, weren’t self obsessed narcissists.[/quote]

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