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In reply to the discussion: Boomers are providing less child care to their grandkids than other generations [View all]Sky Jewels
(9,148 posts)134. That's true. Unfortunately,
many universities aren't accepting all or even a majority of credits from community college classes because they want the students to study with them for more than two years, which of course screws over the transfer students and defeats the point of them using community college as way to cut BA costs way down. So people who want to get more than an AA are often just stretching out their college years and college expenses.
We need to get back to massive government subsidizing of state/public universities. Everyone should have a low-cost and ideally free way to attend a four-year university, which most advanced countries manage to provide, along with universal public healthcare, etc.
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Boomers are providing less child care to their grandkids than other generations [View all]
Demovictory9
Dec 2023
OP
if I used the phrase 'whiney Boomers' here I'd be roasted alive, yet the broad-brush bashing of us younger folk is A-OK
Celerity
Dec 2023
#14
I like that and fits our coolest generation at every stage of our life. Not like our label
LizBeth
Dec 2023
#61
They only first came up with date rape in early 80's about the same time they came out with the drug
LizBeth
Dec 2023
#131
the article is about millenials and they are whining. nobody is obligated to do their parenting for them nt
msongs
Dec 2023
#99
bollocks, 'whining' is a pejorative framing meant to belittle, mock, and delegitimise
Celerity
Dec 2023
#119
The point of the article being, Boomers did not have to whine to get parents as daycare
LizBeth
Dec 2023
#39
Thank you for the fairly realistic essay, Viva La. My own comments are at #136 "My grandma was 3,000 miles away"
Hekate
Dec 2023
#140
I agree-- we should think of this as "Half a century of lousy daycare options."
viva la
Dec 2023
#67
Right. And I say enough already. How many times is this thread going to run and be argued out here on DU?
brush
Dec 2023
#126
Over and over this has run. You see the number of reponses are in the hundred, right?
brush
Dec 2023
#130
Ya, myu parents did not have parents to hand off. I didn't hand off my kids often at all
LizBeth
Dec 2023
#42
Interesting given the trend a few years ago of Boomers BECOMING the parents when their
hlthe2b
Dec 2023
#10
Oh, I love it. In fact, she's sick with a fever (but otherwise very rambuctius and happy today)
phylny
Dec 2023
#60
I always want to laugh when an article points out that (some) Boomers have disposable income.
viva la
Dec 2023
#69
In my state, it's required that the 4-year public colleges accept cc transfer credit.
viva la
Dec 2023
#135
I'm a boomer (late stage, 1959) and I grew up a solid 8 hour drive from the grandparents
ms liberty
Dec 2023
#21
Again in these articles, we GenXers (who also have Boomer parents) are completely Xed out.....
marmar
Dec 2023
#26
It really is amazing. I know it's a "small" generation, but... so often ignored.
viva la
Dec 2023
#71
I know. And every single one of us can match that author anecdote for anecdote.
viva la
Dec 2023
#74
I am a mid-period boomer and my two children (now in their early 40s) are childless by choice.
Chainfire
Dec 2023
#43
Every female boomer I know took the lead in taking care of their parents in their later years
Beaverhausen
Dec 2023
#66
Apparently, when you finally CAN stop working, you're supposed to sit at home
Wingus Dingus
Dec 2023
#86
My grandma was 3,000 miles away. My mother had me for a babysitter from 11 y.o. onward.
Hekate
Dec 2023
#136