Gen Xer here- (42). I did not vote for the one, I voted for Palin. I have been a stay at home mom for many years and homeschooled my kids (at least until the “liberated women” who wanted to work to keep up with the jones drove up prices so much that to just continue my goodwill/used everything lifestyle AND feed 3 teenage boys I had to find some kind of job)
At least my Gen Y kids (22, 17 and 16) will be able to take care of me and hubby when we retire. Oldest has no debt, getting married in Jan, has excellent work ethic and strong moral character (devout catholic abstaining til marraige and using NFP afterwards), middle going to seminary to be a priest, youngest chomping at the bit to do his thing (computers) after finishing homeschooling.
Hubby and I used to worry about retirement because we gave up pursuing money to instill values. Looks like ours was the better investment in this financial collapse. I feel bad for all those moms who thought that buying their kids ipods, cell phones, and cars and 50,000 16th birthday parties. Now that they are broke, and their kids are spoiled and self centered Baruka Salt types, who is gonna take care of them?
I head toward my golden years with a peace and calm that surpasses all understanding. I heeded the advice in proverbs and trained them up the way they should go and they are truly my most prized posessions and greatest inheritance.
So he and his wife will use a not-for-profit after marriage?
I’m with you as a (41 yo) genXer. I sure the h$ll don’t recognize my fellow genXer based on the comments on FR, and I know of no one in my age group that admits to voting for bami. The vast majority of us recognize that we are paying for the government programs supporting many other individuals with the knowledge we won’t see a return on our dollar. The older genXer could care less about being cool and outgrew that about a decade and a half ago. We didn’t grow up with computers (I think Atari was as advanced as it got) and many of us didn’t see computers until a few years into our professional careers. And many of us look 10-15 years younger so I could see how many would think based solely on judging from appearances from afar, how you could mistaken us for GenYers. But if you’ve ever been in management, you would definitely be able to immediately tell a Xer from a Yer. We are the ones (generally) who act the least entitled, expect not a whole lot from “the man” or from the government and want to be left alone so we can do our jobs properly. So I’ll go wipe my snot nose now but will enjoy the fact that it will be many years before I’m relying on someone else to wipe my a$$ and when it’s my turn to be wiped, I’ll have saved enough of my own money to hire someone to wipe it because I understand that the CMS and SS ponzi schemes will have crashed and burned.
And you are a great Mom!