Our grandparents had to save all of their young lives in the hopes of owning their own home some day. Then came the "living on credit" era, and that all went out the window. I see around me a generation of children who have their own cell phone by the time they can walk and spend 50% of their time telling their parents what to do. By the time they are 16 they have the cellphone in one hand, a Starbucks coffee in the other and keys to a newly financed car in their pockets. Is there any wonder they aren't willing to wait for anything else? (Sex, for example...) We have taught them to understand that as soon as they are physically able to have a privilege, then the privilege is theirs. They are the entitled generation. And their parents (some of them good-hearted people) are completely blind to what they have done. The minute the children commit (if you can call it that) to an exclusive relationship, they run out and purchase a home (and the parents co-sign). They don't marry, because that isn't necessary anymore. They can't keep a job because their work ethic stinks to high heaven, but *both* of their parents have to work to be able to bail them out when they can't make their bills. When that resource is exhausted, they default on their home, but no worries... they can still get credit. There will always be some lender offering them the "credit they deserve" at some exorbitant rate. In the meantime, they have a kid or two and, because it cramps their style to have to stay home and parent, they just expect the grandparents to step in... which they do. And they end up raising the grandchildren to be even more screwed up than the kids... but I'll save that rant for another day.
For the record, none of my children turned out this way. They aren't perfect, but they do have a healthy understanding that anything worth having is worth working for, and the only thing in this life that is truly free is salvation (by the grace of God). I don't say this to pat myself on the back, but to let them know that I am very proud of them and realize how blessed I am to call them my own.
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