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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]why does it seem so hard to get anyone to volunteer to help these days?

is it a generational parent thing that parents w younger kids just assume someone else will do it?

it takes a village but it doesn’t seem to compute as the older parents look to pass the torch 
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Maybe because younger parents are drowning while older generations still act confused about why no one is lining up for unpaid labor. Many of us are working demanding jobs, managing two-income households, paying insane housing costs, and trying to actually spend what little free time we have with our kids.

The old model of endless parent volunteering was built in a different era with more stay-at-home parents, lower costs, and more free bandwidth. That world is gone.
So no, it is not that younger parents think "someone else will do it." It is that we do not have the time or margin to subsidize everything with free labor while being lectured by the generations that handed us this mess.
If it "takes a village," then maybe the village should adapt, fund help, streamline expectations, or compensate people instead of guilt-tripping exhausted families.

Personally, I am happy to pay a fee to have someone do the work properly. That is how the real world works. Nothing in life is free anymore, and pretending we still live in some carefree social experiment era is disconnected from reality.[/quote]

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