Boomers seem to have traded in the child-raising village for traveling. Now millennial parents say they have no one to support them.

Business Insider ^ | 11/29/23 | Julie Gerstein and Jane Ridley

[DallasBiff]

Millennials have put off having children, so boomers are the oldest grandparents ever. Many millennial parents say they can't get the support they need from their parents.

[wildcard_redneck]

Weak response from a weak mind.

[NorthMountain]

ROFL!!!

You can’t even come up with your own words ...

You need to do better. Think for yourself. Right now you’re just regurgitating stereotypes other people have spoon-fed to you.

[ronniesgal]

in the case of boomers being Harsh on the kids.....i know my mom gave terrible advice on how to take care of kids.
Would’nt want to hug them/spoil them too much. Let them cry it out, stuff that makes me cringe to think i took that advice.
I hope my kids don’t remember and my only excuse was “I did n’t know any better” Now I do.
I never lived close enough to my family to have them watch my kids and i am grateful for that.

[ought-six]

“Boomers have ef’ed up this country.”

Some of them; those who are Democrats.

[xkaydet65]

Boy is that true. Offering advice to my 35 year old daughter has made me feel a very little bit like those tankers in Shermans watching their 75 AT bounce off Tigers and Panthers.

[Buttons12]

My great-grandparents were born in the 1890’s. In their early 20’s they had kids during WW1. Those kids, my grandparents, had to get the Depression and WW2 out of the way before they had kids in their late 30’s (the 1950’s). My parents, boomers, had to get a lot of fun and games out of their systems before they got around to producing me in their 40’s (the 1990’s). At the rate we’re going I won’t have kids until I’m 50-something.

[Pearls Before Swine]

I’ll have to send this to a couple of my kids. Not the one who has a couple of kids and is buried in work and family, of course.

[caver]

This is the second boomer bashing article that you have posted in several days. You are not the first to do this, just the latest.

[FamiliarFace]

My husband and I were without family around at all. In order to pursue a better life for ourselves, that’s the choice we made. We may have missed out on the grandparents being nearby, but we managed. We were very involved at our church, school, and the community. Our church friends became our family. We got through it ok. Though it wasn’t easy, I’m not one to complain about something we decided to do.

As grandparents now, we don’t have the luxury of enough money to travel for fun and also travel to see our children and grandchildren, who are scattered across the country. Fortunately, we have the advantage of technological advances like FaceTime to visit with the kids.

[wardaddy]

I disagree

Boomers have a much higher incidence of stay at home moms than xers or z or y

How do I know cause I’m smack dab middle boomer with a peer group 75-80% stay home mom

My wife is an early xer and stayed home 22 years with kids but works now with youngest of ours now 17

She loves retail and merchandising but also liked being home too

If you can afford it but with home prices what they are it’s more difficult for younger parents even without the substantial brainwashing taken into account

My parents who were between greatest and boomers were likely 90% stay home moms

[wardaddy]

He does this every thread
His folks must have been real gems

[Chode]

i’m a boomer and i have three millennial girls that don’t need any help, from anybody!

what i give them and the kids, is for my pleasure...

[af_vet_1981]

It takes the precise opposite of a village, it takes a family, complete with family values.

Allow me to suggest it takes families with good values (morality, kindness, charity) to provide the kind of villages that are wholesome for children, even those children who fall through the cracks when their families fall apart.

[FamiliarFace]

Thanks for painting boomer parents with a broad brush. Stay at home mom of 3 here, that are all wonderful contributing adults. We had just one income. Sacrificed a lot, and people like you tarnish all that just to try to make a point on an internet forum. Disgusting.

[FamiliarFace]

We were 4 and 5 states away from our parents when we raised our three kids. No babysitting from ours either. Mom & Dad would’ve loved to have had more visits with them. It just wasn’t in the cards.

[Night Hides Not]

Don’t forget, the Boomers ended the Cold War and elected Ronald Reagan. Bill Clinton and the Bushes spent the peace dividend.

[ansel12]

“”””Daycare started in the 70’s””””

They has daycare at least in the early 50s.

[cherry]

there are differences in families....some elders want as little to do with their grandchildren as they can...they move far away, make themselves unavailable, yet they still "love" the grandkids, just don't want to do anything with them....

we're not close physically to our grandchildren plus there's that your weekend/my weekend thing and when I was working I often worked weekends and holidays but no matter, we always tried to have our impacet somehow....

I believe in legacies...my parents did...and they were not rich by any means, pretty low actually but gee, they were able to help us out here and there and never refused giving help....

now my husbands parents....made it clear that they would not "give up their weekends" for the grandchildren, and they also pretty much said they had other plans when we christened my dtr, although they eventually came.....they won't waste a dollar on anybody that they can't spend on themselves...

[ansel12]

I was in daycare in the 1950s.

[CodeToad]

I am stunned by how many younger cannot raise children at all without their parents doing the raising. I see 65 and older idiots raising the children of their 20 to 45 year old kids.