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FirstLight

(14,278 posts) Mon Dec 2, 2024, 11:13 PM Dec 2

Why is it so hard for our kids to just LIVE these days? [View all]

Not sure where to post this, but it seems like a current issue and maybe there's an answer. Maybe it has to get worse before it gets better.

Both my kids are Gen Z. Both have their own issues and life choices to deal with...but why does it have to be so damned difficult for them to just get a foothold in this life?
I swear, whether its the car breaking cuz they couldn't afford something viable and that snowballs into a rent crisis, or a health issue that puts one of their partners out of commission so they cant buy groceries....
These poor kids just can't seem to cut a fuckin break!
My heart hurts because I can't even begin to figure out how to help, much less take any of them back into the house...

With the horrific things we're expecting coming down the pike with the economy, I am so freaking worried about them...

How do we get ahead? How can they even start a life?
Im sorry but I just heard from my youngest and they're down to living in an rv with no water and a heater that broke... Im beside myself ... So excuse my emotions 😭

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Why is it so hard for our kids to just LIVE these days? [View all] FirstLight Dec 2 OP

Because we are a nation run by billionaires would could care less about the children. walkingman Dec 2 #1

Well, yeah that's the short answer I guess FirstLight Dec 2 #2

Yup, it's their world. We're just living in it. Initech Dec 3 #6

Median wages have stagnated since Carter, most of the gains in worker productivity RockRaven Dec 2 #3

I know... There's nothing else we can do FirstLight Dec 3 #4

Because our society has collapsed and broken the social contract. Basso8vb Dec 3 #5

Some of the old ways need to be brought back RhapsodyFav Dec 3 #7

Yes! FirstLight Dec 3 #11

The normalization of fascism. Karasu Dec 3 #8

sounds like my life back 40 years ago Kali Dec 3 #9

I relate for sure.. FirstLight Dec 3 #10

40 years ago you were competing with 225 million other Americans for jobs and kids now are competing with 8.2 billion meadowlander Dec 3 #15

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That's a very ill-informed statement, Forum132. You are declaring pot is the worst drug there is... Hekate Dec 3 #13

Sounds like a perception of cannabis that's stuck in the 1970's. Aristus Dec 3 #30

The troll sounded like someone whose native language was other than English Hekate Dec 4 #32

So many of them have student loans that they'll have to start paying. kerry-is-my-prez Dec 3 #14

Mine didn't even make it to college... FirstLight Dec 3 #17

Capitalism cannot survive without slavery. Instead of addressing the financial side of in2herbs Dec 3 #26

It is the horrendous WEALTH GAP. Understanding why and how it is that way people willfully ignore because Jit423 Dec 3 #16

Did they travel during Thanksgiving? Sympthsical Dec 3 #18

Bravo! TheProle Dec 3 #19

nope... FirstLight Dec 3 #20

In all seriousness, I hear you Sympthsical Dec 3 #21

your last sentence is spot on... FirstLight Dec 3 #23

Making it as a young adult these days isn't like it was even in the 90's when I was in my 20s. You can't goof around Fish700 Dec 3 #22

exactly... FirstLight Dec 3 #24

Man, I wouldn't want to be a kid in this generation Dem4life1234 Dec 3 #25

"Coddled by the school system???!!!" WTF? hunter Dec 3 #28

yeah, no coddling here either... FirstLight Dec 3 #29

Im so sorry you had to endure that FirstLight Dec 3 #31

You made some good points Dem4life1234 Dec 4 #33

The academics weren't all that great either. hunter Dec 4 #34

I'm so sorry. Another worried mom here. GPV Dec 3 #27