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When your child judges the choices that kept your family afloat

My teenage son got a job at a fast food place and now looks down on me for working in the same industry for twenty years, saying I should have done more with my life.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A young person's emerging awareness of class and ambition collides with gratitude, creating painful distance from the parent who sacrificed for their opportunities.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Money and parenting — financial pressure and class?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.