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CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

In the early 80’s my mom left my abusive father, with 3 kids in tow, and managed to buy a (shitty) car, rent a (shitty) house, and feed all three of us with a waitress job at Golden fucking Corral (paying for child care while she was at work, too!), and all the while not getting a dime in support from dear alcoholic dad. It wasn’t easy but it was possible. That’s no longer true.

I have watched the world become impossible for younger people to thrive in, and it’s really depressing.

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Snowclone@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
At this point you need to have hope everything breaks.

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aesthelete@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
It’s really important to have these kinds of abilities in order to have a functioning society as well. In the current situation, everything has to go perfectly for children to even have a mediocre upbringing. Their mom and their dad have to both be pretty well-educated and work jobs good enough to afford the increasingly out of control costs of living.

If a single parent has the ability with a mediocre job to fund a household, it makes it much easier to bear the usual societal ills such as one or the other parent not being dependable.

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Dagwood222@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Sad and true.

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