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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a boomer I never expected child care or financial support from my parents and my parents never received that from their parents. Why do millennials expect it from their parents? We all faced child care and financial challenges when we were in our 30s and 40s but somehow survived over time. I still cringe when I think about our 17.25% mortgage in 1981. I never had one below 6-7% which is now considered outrageous. [/quote]

[b]Cost of living and home prices back then were in a completely different league than today[/b].[/quote]

In 1965, one could buy a house in the Northeast for about $30k. A new car was about $3k.  What do you think those comparables cost now?[/quote]

Does that make you entitled to your parent's help?

Boomers didn't buy new all the time.  A hole in your pants, or sock? Get out the needle and thread.  Take care of things so they last.  That $3k car - how long did they have it?  They had one car, too.[/quote]

DP. My Boomer parents have never, in my lifetime, had fewer than three cars for the two of them. [/quote]

I love how you thought this dramatic proclamation meant anything at all.[/quote]

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