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[b]You guys still at it with the generational wars? Stop getting baited by the media.[/b]

The WORLD ECONOMY HAS CHANGED. Parenting philosophies may have changed too, but not more than hard financial facts.

[/quote]Thank you! Voice of sanity.  These generational wars help no one.[/quote]

Wrong. It’s history and we’re trying to learn from it and do better for our own children.[/quote]

I hate to tell you, but the Boomers thought they were doing better for their children, too.  The stoic, emotionally-distant Greatest Generation gave rise to the over-involved, dream-your-dreams helicopter parent.  The frugal Greatest Generation members who made it through the Depression and imposed that austerity on their kids raised a generation determined to do materially more for their kids, even if it meant working at a greed-is-good, high-powered job.  The Boomer hippies started the environmental movement, and, even though I know first-wave feminism isn't good enough for the younger crowd, the women's rights movement.  And, just like they blamed their parents before them for the world's ills, karma bites them back in the form of their children.

And, honestly, a lot of these generational problems are mostly a first-world problem kind of things.  Actual middle-class and blue-collar families (not the DCUM conception of them) have long been struggling to get by, living in multi-generational housing, and struggling with the cost of higher education.  It's just getting the UMC white people now, and they complain more.[/quote]

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