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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Boomers are too busy and galavanting around on vacations to help their kids and grand kids, sad. Another example of boomer selfishness on top of the wealth taking and focusing younger generations to find their lifestyles, sad.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/millennials-feel-abandoned-parents-available-help-raise-grandkids-busy.amp[/quote]

Don't have children expecting your parents to be your free child Care.  We took care of our kids and you can do the same.[/quote]

I think the point of the article and the point many posters are making is that many parents by and large did not take care of their children without assistance from their family but now that they are the grandparents they arent paying it forward.

Many posters here including myself were practically raised by our grandparents during summers but have not received the same type of assistance from our parents. [/quote]

Do you have data to back that up?   I didn’t have any living grandparents growing up.   Many of my friends growing up didn’t even have a father to help their mother care for them.

To claim that many people born in the 40s, 50s, and 60s had grandparents helping to care for them is one of the stupidest statements you could make. [/quote]

Dp. My grandparents absolutely watched us on date nights and did after-school care for many of my cousins. I never talked about it with my friends. Why would I? Point being, unless you questioned all of your friends, there's no way you would know how much help their grandparents provided.

Tbf, there's no data on any of this it seems. The linked article quotes an individual discussing her *therapy* patients. There's no actual data on how many millennials actually feel "abandoned." Even on this thread, a few posters have admitted feeling this way while many others have said something to the effect of, 'I understand xy and z, but I don't have this expectation of my own parents.'[/quote]

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