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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a Millennial married to an X-er. The difference my Gen X DH claims he sees is that many younger parents (not borderline Millenials like me) are less likely to step up and get involved in sports, clubs, and PTAs. It's not a perfect generalization and there are definitely exceptions on both sides, but it does seem like fewer and fewer people volunteer for things every year.[/quote]

I don’t know that this is bad.  In a capitalist society, it’s kind of ridiculous to rely on free labor to get things done. 
For example from my own life.  You can hire teenage lifeguards to be timers at the swim meet for $15/hr.  You don’t need to ask a judge to spend her limited time off standing at the edge of the pool for four hours instead of socializing with her friends and family.  And we don’t need two separate times to see what a seven year old got in her 25 free.

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I’m genx and have the opposite experience. It’s the millennial parents that volunteer and I dislike volunteering and would rather pay.

I wish swim teams would stop nagging the parents and just pay for timers, concessions, etc. Every week is a struggle to get the necessary number of volunteers. I think that’s the only reason they wanted us back this year and sent multiple emails: I always used to volunteer at each meet. [/quote]

Swim team volunteering requirements are excessive. I think any generation parents can agree on that, at least in NVSL. It literally drives families away (especially the THREE separate times for the 7 year old).

But the capitalist society PP realizes that our entire society wasn't built on expecting paid labor for everything, right? For example the poverty line was at least initially set expecting every family to have an economizing housewife at home who would make the best use of every dollar and cent having been trained well by the huge home ec programs that used to exist. A lot of assumptions in our society actually do expect there is a group of people who aren't earners who are contributing to society in unpaid ways. I don't think it's a good thing that this was assumed to be women for the longest time, but I also think it would be fine if we allowed that some people [i]enjoy[/i] not working but yet volunteering for things and gave them scope to do that, regardless of sex or gender. [/quote]

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