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When parents can't teach financial literacy they never learned

My adult children keep asking me for financial advice about credit scores, student loans, and first-time home buying, but I realize I don't actually understand these systems well enough to guide them properly and we're all just sharing our mutual confusion.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The expectation of intergenerational financial wisdom collides with the reality that previous generations also lacked formal financial education.

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“Where Are You with Financial education — what schools never taught?”

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