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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are many reasons but in HHI homes many kids get spoiled and have helicopter parents. When they graduate with low value degrees their parents subsidize them and when they hit 30 they end up as dud children. Sadly, I see it with some of my siblings kids. [/quote]

This is my experience, too. Educated parents raising kids who are simply not as exceptional as they expected their children to be. Kids who should have been directed toward trades or other lower-level type work are pushed to go to grad school when they can't get a "respectable" job out of college, because the parents simply can't imagine their kid not being a C-suite exec at 30.

I have one friend whose 27-year-old has a business-related job that's OK but hardly impressive. She really wants him to quit and go to grad school for an MBA, when the kid barely made it out of college. The kid also STILL has no idea what he "wants to be when he grows up." And while he finally moved out at age 26, he's comes back "home" pretty much 3 days out of 5. His dad takes his car to get the oil changed. His back account is linked to his parents. He's still basically a child in their eyes.

It's a systemic problem.[/quote]

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