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[quote=Anonymous]I'm 56 and my husband is 57, baby boomers both of us. Both our sets of parents divorced when we were young and re-married, some multiple times. We have had six step-parents and 15 step siblings between us. No one paid much attention to us growing up. We went through college with lots of jobs, loans, and a little help from our grandparents. When we had our own children, our parents did not help out of baby-sit. They were too busy with their own messed up lives. When our parents got old, we ended up partially supporting some of them because they had been financially irresponsible. Thank goodness they had social security and in some cases small pensions. Because they were all divorced, they didn't look out for or take care of each other, so we had to take care of each of our parents separately. If they had stayed married then maybe the healthier one could have at least helped take care of the less healthy one.

Our children, millenials born in the mid and late 1980s, were raised in a stable home with two parents. We paid all their tuition and room and board for college, although we expected them to earn their own spending money through summer and occasionally term-time jobs. We helped them move to college and helped them move many times (something our parents never did for us: I was given a bus ticket and put on the bus with my suitcase). I signed lease guarantees for my children, something my parents never would have done for me. (I asked once when I was young and they said no.) I helped my children with their resumes and coached them through job hunting, something no parent ever did for me. I have also saved enough money for my own retirement so they will not need to financially contribute when I get old and sick.

Which generation had it bad?[/quote]

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