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FirstLight

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23. your last sentence is spot on...
Tue Dec 3, 2024, 12:48 PM
Dec 3

My youngest is living in a broken RV with his GF and a 2 yr old... because they cant afford rent and her paernts are POS and abusive so they literally had nowhere to go...

I am scrambling to try and get them out here at least to Carson City so they can be closer to me. I sent my sone a list of apprenticeship programs sponsored by the labor board, he wants to go into electrical or carpentry. She is a CNA, but is only working on call, and if they call her to a place where they can't drive to, they're screwed.
He's only 22.

So many times I have seen this kid try and try and not be able to just GET STABLE so he can fucking breathe. The GF is the best thing that happened to him, because they both help eachother...she had the kid when they met (her ex was abusive)

Seems that not only is poverty (and generational poverty especially) not helping, but the ills that go with it like abuse and other generational ills. I admit I am just now working on healing my parents' contribution to my own issues. I've been sober for a year, but that didn't help me help them when they were teens or just starting out either. and there's just SO many broken families and people out there...

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Because we are a nation run by billionaires would could care less about the children. walkingman Dec 2 #1
Well, yeah that's the short answer I guess FirstLight Dec 2 #2
Yup, it's their world. We're just living in it. Initech Dec 3 #6
Median wages have stagnated since Carter, most of the gains in worker productivity RockRaven Dec 2 #3
I know... There's nothing else we can do FirstLight Dec 3 #4
Because our society has collapsed and broken the social contract. Basso8vb Dec 3 #5
Some of the old ways need to be brought back RhapsodyFav Dec 3 #7
Yes! FirstLight Dec 3 #11
The normalization of fascism. Karasu Dec 3 #8
sounds like my life back 40 years ago Kali Dec 3 #9
I relate for sure.. FirstLight Dec 3 #10
40 years ago you were competing with 225 million other Americans for jobs and kids now are competing with 8.2 billion meadowlander Dec 3 #15
Post removed Post removed Dec 3 #12
That's a very ill-informed statement, Forum132. You are declaring pot is the worst drug there is... Hekate Dec 3 #13
Sounds like a perception of cannabis that's stuck in the 1970's. Aristus Dec 3 #30
The troll sounded like someone whose native language was other than English Hekate Dec 4 #32
So many of them have student loans that they'll have to start paying. kerry-is-my-prez Dec 3 #14
Mine didn't even make it to college... FirstLight Dec 3 #17
Capitalism cannot survive without slavery. Instead of addressing the financial side of in2herbs Dec 3 #26
It is the horrendous WEALTH GAP. Understanding why and how it is that way people willfully ignore because Jit423 Dec 3 #16
Did they travel during Thanksgiving? Sympthsical Dec 3 #18
Bravo! TheProle Dec 3 #19
nope... FirstLight Dec 3 #20
In all seriousness, I hear you Sympthsical Dec 3 #21
your last sentence is spot on... FirstLight Dec 3 #23
Making it as a young adult these days isn't like it was even in the 90's when I was in my 20s. You can't goof around Fish700 Dec 3 #22
exactly... FirstLight Dec 3 #24
Man, I wouldn't want to be a kid in this generation Dem4life1234 Dec 3 #25
"Coddled by the school system???!!!" WTF? hunter Dec 3 #28
yeah, no coddling here either... FirstLight Dec 3 #29
Im so sorry you had to endure that FirstLight Dec 3 #31
You made some good points Dem4life1234 Dec 4 #33
The academics weren't all that great either. hunter Dec 4 #34
I'm so sorry. Another worried mom here. GPV Dec 3 #27
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