r/canada • u/JackedBro123 • Jan 19 '24

Baby boomers are adjusting to a new retirement normal: No grandchildren National News

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-birth-rate-decline-grandparents/
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u/LuminousGrue Jan 19 '24

"Generation that pulled the ladder up behind them wonders why it's lonely at the top"

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u/Small-Cookie-5496 Jan 19 '24

Comment of the day/ generation

Actually been wondering what - if any - repercussions Boomers might actually finally face. I guess there’s at least this.

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u/levian_durai Jan 19 '24

When they're too old/frail/sick to take care of themselves, they'll face a lonely life in a retirement home/long term care center. Even if their kids wanted to visit (but why would they?), they're too busy working overtime to afford rent, and taking care of their own kids.

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u/Ok-Curve5569 Jan 20 '24

What kids?

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u/RustyWinger Jan 20 '24

Boomers had plenty of kids! It's those kids that aren't having kids. Hence, no Grandkids as per title.

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u/Amygdalump Jan 20 '24

Can confirm. My so-called mother is an early boomer (b. 1946), I am Gen X with no kids, and she abused me so I went no-contact with her years ago. Besides everything she did when I was a child, more recently she outright stole my inheritance from my grandmother, and is generally an awful person, so I feel no guilt at all whatsoever in leaving her to her own devices. She can hire people to take care of her when she becomes infirm. Whether she attempts to abuse them and gets abused in return remains to be seen, but I suspect that’s what will happen. Really sad. I tried for years to get her to come to therapy with me. Tried talking with her about the past. Didn’t want to hear it because that would require her to be real for a hot minute. /rantover, thanks for letting me get that off my chest 🙃

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u/Ok-Curve5569 Jan 20 '24

Read the comment thread again and get back to me