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Best way to protect your child?

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  • ska_lover
    ska_lover Posts: 3,773 Forumite
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    We have done it to them. When I was 18, 30 years ago, a fair number of my contemporaries had already been in work for two years, many more were joining them at 18 and a few like me were going to university. Of course you can't leave school in the term you turn 16 to take up full time employment now, you have to remain in training to 18, and it seems many get dragged into longer courses, as well as the massive expansion of the university sector that has taken place in the last 20 years.

    So now we have a generation where they are likely to be at uni or on an apprenticeship at the end of their teens, not earning enough to live independently and likely to still be with their parents for years to come. They aren't being given the opportunity to be adults, and it's down to government and social policy (if they're in education, they're not in the unemployment figures) and we voted it. Teenagers are being infantilized and it's our fault.

    Completely agree.

    I wonder how many parents do not realise the monster they have created until it is too late, when they are still feeding and clothing their middle aged offspring and parents having to work well into retirement in order to do so. It is really horrifying
    The opposite of what you know...is also true
  • Anyway, did the OP's "child" manage to get the bus to college and back, in the end?
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