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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Don't know when it changed here or anywhere, but all of this is directly correlated with parents' income - always was. Grew up in the 1990s in a well to do southern NJ suburb -- lots of kids of doctors, lawyers, business owners. Even then it was looked down upon if you "had to work." To some extent other kids found it cool bc they were fascinated that your money was yours and not conditional on your parents who could withhold it to punish. But not all the looking down upon was by your peers, it was their parents looking down upon your parents -- i.e. aww soooo sad that Johnny can't play travel soccer and chill at the mall like my Christopher, it must be soooo hard on him that he has to work 15 hrs a week at CVS/Pizza Hut/wherever.  It was the type of suburb where you were given a car when you turned 17. No one much cared about education so Rutgers it was for most people -- unless your parents were Penn State loyal, then they paid OOS for PSU.  So point is, even in the 90s if you were working back there for your spending money, to save for college, or a car/car insurance, people ran around implying that your parents just weren't good enough providers.

OTOH -- lived in Richmond for a few yrs in the early 2000s and EVERYONE worked. Every teenage kid had jobs at the grocery store, fast food, retail etc. including the children of well to do law firm partners. I remember having a discussion about that with one such partner and his view was -- no 16 yr old boy should be without a job, doesn't matter if his parents have money or not. So they viewed it more as a rite of passage/responsibility thing vs. necessarily needing the money.[/quote]

Your post is funny to me.  My DH is from Richmond, we have HHI that means our kids do not need to work (but do), and one of them is named Christopher.

That aside, I agree with what you said.[/quote]

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