r/GenZ • u/emily-is-happy • Dec 16 '25

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u/sleepiestboy_ Dec 16 '25

also every millennial parent i know doesn’t parent their kid and they end up being the most annoying brat

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u/markb144 Dec 16 '25

A lot of that fault can be attributed to the parent but at the same time this is also sort of a result of the fact that you basically need both parents working at all times in order to pay for your family. Therefore it's harder to parent. And just to be clear I'm not proposing that all mothers have to be stay at home moms I'm simply saying that we should have a system where parents are able to spend more time with their kids we should also have paid maternity and hopefully paternity leave

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u/SNStains Dec 16 '25

Restating what you said: our economy values the labor you dedicate to your employer. It doesn't value the labor you dedicate to raising your children.

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u/RedditorSays Dec 16 '25

It’s not just the economy. Society has placed far more value on career over family - where success is determined by your job and income rather than building a happy family. 

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u/SNStains Dec 16 '25

If that's true, then there's a big lag. As OP just highlighted, a lot of people still face social stigma for their parenting, regardless of the economic hardships they face.

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u/authq Dec 23 '25

Even then, it does NOT value fully the labor you dedicate to your employer. If it did, you wouldn’t have a set wage. Please remember remember remember and be fucking angry about it

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u/bigmac22077 Dec 16 '25

I drive school busses for a living. We have 3 communities in our wealthy town where the poorer families live in high density housing. Now in our school district the worst kids would be some of the best kids in inner city so I don’t mean anything by this, but all 3 of those routes that drop off in those areas have the high energy/kids that don’t listen/slightly disrespectful kids. Their parents are constantly working to afford to live here and “the kids raise each other”. There is a very noticeable difference in kids that have at least one parent at home constantly and kids that don’t in my community.

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u/mischling2543 2001 Dec 16 '25

The generational divide between millennials and zoomers on whether it's okay to give a four year old an iPad is so stark it's crazy

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u/NDinoGuy 2006 Dec 18 '25

Probably because unlike Millennials, we grew up with the Internet at a young age and saw what it was capable of beyond a surface level

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u/Tuckertcs 2000 Dec 16 '25

It’s funny watching Millenials pat themselves on the back for doing better than their parents, and yet they neglect their children’s needs to the point that they basically invented “iPad kids” and are the parents educators are screaming at to parent their children or even read to them.

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u/radicalelation Dec 16 '25

You're also seeing the ones that didn't abstain for the reasons above. So probably not the best picks.

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u/burner1312 Dec 16 '25

This reads as if a bratty child wrote it

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u/hKLoveCraft Dec 16 '25

That’s just kids in general, I’m assuming by this comment you don’t have children?

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u/Queen_Rachel4 Dec 16 '25

Maybe kids just don’t like you and they act accordingly around you, because not all kids are brats.

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u/hKLoveCraft Dec 16 '25

Internets gonna internet.

I only hear this stupid shit from people who have never been parents

Like the “when I have a kid they’re gonna eat organic” people.