Ep. 193. Should Boomers help raise their millennial kids’ kids?

The Suzanne Venker Show

Suzanne Venker

Society & Culture

4.9 • 650 Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2024

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Boomers are out enjoying retirement, and some millennials are feeling abandoned by their parents who are too busy to help raise their kids. Suzanne offers her take on this topic.

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0:00.0	From the magnificent Midwest, it's the Suzanne Venker Show, where men and women are equal in value, but wildly different by nature.
0:21.4	Join us here every week as we challenge the culture's hugely flawed narratives about men,
0:27.0	women, sex, and love.
0:29.1	From coast to coast and from around the world, thank you for joining us.
0:34.5	Hello, everyone.
0:37.9	So, today I wanted to talk about this very trendy topic of boomers and millennials.
0:50.0	Well, I mean, specifically of boomers potentially raising or helping to raise their kids, kids,
0:58.5	and whether or not that should be an expectation or seems to be among many millennials and all of the intricacies of this issue.
1:09.9	There was an article in Business Insider last month. I'm going to read from that in a minute,
1:17.0	but first I'm going to read an email I got and I get several of these, or I have, I should say,
1:23.5	in the last six months or so, about this issue. And this one's from a woman named Tasha. Dear Suzanne, what advice do you have for parents of young children who have no support
1:32.7	network? We moved to be near my husband's family and get little to no support from them with our
1:38.7	four kids unless we have a hospital level emergency. This has been quite upsetting and shocking for us, seeing as my husband
1:45.3	was practically raised by his grandmother. I don't expect them to raise our children, but they spend
1:50.2	more time on vacation than they do interacting with their grandchildren, and I'm so stressed being
1:53.7	at home with four kids all day, every day, alongside homeschooling our oldest. We expected more and feel
2:00.2	like the rug was pulled out from under us.
2:02.2	We live approximately 30 minutes apart, and unless there's a birthday holiday or an emergency,
2:06.7	we only see them once every six weeks or so. Thank you and I look forward to hearing your thoughts.
2:15.8	So there's a couple of missing, there's some missing information here.
2:19.5	So for example, I don't know whether they moved specifically to be near them and they had this conversation in advance about, you know, wanting to be close or needing help.
2:31.1	So there's that.
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