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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I feel like a lot of millennials refuse to do the math. When I was small, my grandma was in her 50s. People complaining about lack of help when “my parents’ parents helped them”: how old are your parents? My guess is, substantially older than their parents were when you were born.

It’s nobody’s fault. It’s just a societal change. Complaining won’t help. [/quote]

Yes this is a huge issue. Also mostly white Americans delay childbirth. This is a big mistake in the long run. 
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It's not just childbearing patterns that have changed. Even when women don't delay childbearing, more women in the workplace means fewer grandmothers available to help with childcare. My mother was 52 when my oldest was born and helped as much as she could, but she was working fulltime and continued to do so for another 15 years. She certainly wasn't providing daycare for us. [/quote]

My mother was a little over 10 years older than that (65) but same, still working and not available to help.[/quote]

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