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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Boomers are not some monolithic group.  What is relevant to this debate are the boomers with the relatively affluent demographics of DCUM denizens.  People born between 1946-1964 (the boomers) started turning 18 in 1964.  The idea that a large proportion of the (affluent) DCUM boomer crowd needed and benefited from lots of grandparent help to support two careers flies in the face of the fact that far fewer of those families had two stressful careers back in the dark ages of the 1960’s, 1970’s, 1980’s, and 1990’s than is true in today’s DMV.[/quote]

I don’t think most of us are asking for full-time childcare.  In my case, I can’t get them to watch kids briefly once or twice a year.[/quote]

How old are your parents? Every single person sighing here about how their parents are selfishly refusing to help them should state the age of their parents. Most of the time it’s a good 10 or even 15 years older than [i]their[/i] grandparents were when they provided similar help. It’s something that nobody warns you about when you decide to delay childbearing. Just an unforeseen consequence that is being used to fuel generational grievances.[/quote]

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