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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The boomers have no interest in helping with their grandchildren. They are too busy living their best life.

All my millennial friends with small kids have perfectly healthy boomer parents who are totally uninterested in helping with grandkids.

I wish every day that DH or I had helpful parents. We’ve never had even an hour of childcare that we didn’t pay for. Instead we’re anticipating our parents someday relying on us for financial support.[/quote]

100% my situation also. Its very common amongst my millenial friends.[/quote]

I am curious. Did their parents help raise you as kids? My grandparents didn’t. My mom and dad also did it on their own and well. Sometimes they dropped us off with neighbors or an aunt in an emergency. But for the most part, they did and then my older siblings did. Lots of latchkey kids too. Many boomers see their own kids, now adults obsessed with material things, expensive sports and activities for their kids, vacations, houses 3 sizes bigger than necessary, a more expensive area to live in, car leases instead of owning used cars. I mean our generation has been terrible with money. So why should grandparents be FT nannies? That is ridiculous.

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