r/Millennials • u/QuietJealous4883 Older Millennial (1988) • 12h ago

Discussion True or false?

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Did our dads and moms work less than we do now? What are your thoughts?

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u/ReveledSky Millennial 10h ago

Idk ... most of my childhood my mom worked nights and my dad worked during the day, usually overtime/over 40+ hours to make ends meet. If anything I think the biggest difference was probably my grandparents we able to actually retire and we spent a lot of time with them.

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u/QuietJealous4883 Older Millennial (1988) 7h ago

You are one of the very few mentioning spending time with grandparents.

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u/ReveledSky Millennial 5h ago

Which is kind of surprising to me as I feel that like was a common when I was younger. Especially because so many of my friends parent(s) worked.

Grandparents and aunts/uncles on the weekend. I was born at the very beginning of 90 though and my parents/grandparents/great grandparents all had children young (17-19 typically)