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Originally Posted by GirlySports
I'm not sure I agree. Is getting your foot in the door harder now when people are getting married and having kids later? 40 years ago, people got married and had kids straight out of high school or maybe college.
If you take a guy born in 1990 as an example. He could have started working casual/part time in 2005 (grade 10). Then if he chose to go the post-secondary, the money he earned the last 3 years would help or he found a trade and continued working, not going to school.
If he doesn't marry until he's 28, he's got 6-10 years of earning income as a single person with little expenses. I would rather have that situation then married at 21 with a kid in 1980.
We've talked about this but I believe kids are just getting a later start and they're behind the 8-ball. Our society of 'getting an education' has prolonged adolescence. Used to be, 18 years old, you were out the door working and living on your own. Now kids stay at home until at least 22 and maybe more if they do more school. Chicken and egg. More school is making kids not get out into the workforce, not getting into the workforce is making kids stay to home longer.
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The problem is that later and later start keeps getting later, and is now at the point where many people just aren't having kids or are spending large parts of their adult life dependent on their parents, which brings us back to the point of social mobility.
It's a major societal issue, and the fact that people are accepting it as normal is disturbing.