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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I suspect the ones clamoring for grandchildren are also the least likely to help out with babysitting or to visit. They just want the status symbol of telling their friends how many grandkids they have and don't want to help out current parents in a world that has made it much harder to raise children than they experienced.[/quote]

Why should we help out? Our parents did not help us neither did any previous generation parents since dawn of time.

My grandparents had 8 kids and we lived 3,000 miles away yet somehow my mom had four kids and me three kids. Today the precious snowflakes wit two kids except both grandparents helping, daycare, babysitters, after school programs, summer camps. Raise your own damn kids.

All I ask, marry well, have 2-3 kids, buy a house and have me over thanksgiving, Xmas, kids birthday parties. I am not your servant. I raises my kids.

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This response is why there are not grandchildren.

Taking out climate change issues your child raising experience was worlds apart from ours nowadays. One salary was sufficient to support a family so the other parent could watch the kids when they were young. Aftercare was cheap come elementary age or the kids could go latchkey. You weren't threatened by the idea that someone would call CPS on you by telling your kids to play outside all day until dark. College acceptance was guaranteed for anyone with a good GPA. Rec leagues for youth sports used to be affordable and sufficient for all but the most elite players. I could go on and on.

Heck even sicknesses were easier. I can count on one hand the number of times I missed school due to illness as a child. Now illness is a monthly occurrence it seems for kids post-Covid.

Congrats on raising your kids and help out those of us younger parents who have a much steeper hill to climb.
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