So do your children "interrogate your finances"?

So now he's 39 and still moaning...I'd be ashamed to be his mother.

Speechless Maggiemaybe

Well, nearly.
I would have booted him up the backside told him to go away and earn his own money years ago.

Just glad he's not mine !! Id have told him to grow up long ago.... :-)

I'm glad I'm not alone! Comments have been disabled on the article and most of them removed - I do wish I'd seen them!

Surely it must be tongue in cheek, surely no-one could lack that much self-awareness of what a self-indulgent prat he makes himself sound?

You'd think, wouldn't you, Jalima? There's an economist mentioned in the article several times, Danny Blanchflower, who's quoted as saying With the Brexit vote, the old declared war on the young, and the young should respond by giving them the middle finger.

For the sake of my blood pressure, I'm not even going to google him!

It is pitiful really and makes me proud of my family. That poor woman must be so embarrassed by him. How dare he put all that in a national newspaper!

We did not ask that house prices should favour us (at eye-watering mortgage rates!); or that the government of the time provided proper student grants; or that some of us have been lucky enough to skim under the wire and get our state pension at 60 etc. - so the concept of blame is not appropriate. It was simply how life was.

My DC have never asked about our finances and I have never asked about theirs, although I can take an educated guess. We have helped them along the way, sharing the two small legacies we had from our parents for which they were very grateful.

One DC does know a bit about our savings as they bought our home from us so that we could move to a bungalow. They did not ask what our finances were, but I told them when they expressed concern that we might be selling to them at too low a price. And they also said that they would "see us right" if we found ourselves in any difficulty.

So, after reading this ghastly man's whinge, I feel very proud of them all - they stand on their own two feet and ask for nothing. They are grateful when we have been able to help (either with money or child care - which saves them money); but in no way feel entitled. I think they are a great bunch!

Oh yes, have heard of him, I think he was mentioned in a thread once.
The real Danny Blanchflower was a footballer and a most respected sportsman and journalist.
This bod appears to have pinched his name because he is not really a Danny, I think he's a David.
Trading on someone else's fame.

That's just how I feel about my lot, Luckygirl, and just how our family works too. I suspect most people would be embarrassed to be related to Andrew.

Each generation lives their lives according to the hand they are dealt and resentment is non-productive.

I would leave my money to the dog's home if he belonged to me.

Ah yes, that's where I knew the name from! No doubt DH will have mentioned it at some stage (in one ear and out the other ).

They wouldn't dare! (Half) Joking apart I don't think it would ever cross their minds

Oh dear! Whilst I would step in and offer help if I thought DDs needed financial help that I could support they do not come asking! Both, through hard work and sensible choices, do have homes that they are buying, occasional holidays and run a car. We did give our DD1 a contribution to the deposit on their first flat..that was because we thought they were not getting married so in leiu of contributing to wedding costs! 10 yeas later they did get married..but paid for most of it themselves! Neither have high powered jobs.

An intelligent man who thinks the world owes him a living. He could get a well paid job albeit dull, and he would be fine. But instead he wants to write and thinks some old people should give him half their pension because they might have voted Brexit!

Hopefully after reading what he thinks, his mother doesn't give him anymore money.

I agree that we do not need yet another discussion of interest rates/student grants etc., and think that the young man in question is very unfair in his sweeping statements about Brexit and the older generation, most inaccurate too if GN is anything to go by. I think the main issue in this article ( read it Sunday evening too) is that he somehow thought it a good idea to work part time and study for a PhD without any apparent forethought about how he was going to support his family. Whether he expected his Mother to help out ( as he did) or the state to help out through working tax credits/housing benefit etc while he pursued his studies, it shows a lack of responsibility and maturity.

Well, that's him out of the will then!

Well he got the brexit bit wrong.....mother (83) voted remain. Daughter (34) voted leave. The rest is just the same old thing blame the older generation for life not being perfect. I notice he doesn't mention those of us that no longer get a pension at 60 and have lost out on thousands of pounds.

Yup, Jalima1108* and willsmadnan exactly what I thought when I read his piece. That poor woman, i hope none of her friends know that he is her son she must be mortified.

I think the main issue in this article ( read it Sunday evening too) is that he somehow thought it a good idea to work part time and study for a PhD without any apparent forethought about how he was going to support his family

I don't condone anything else he's said but do know that academic funding has had cut after cut recently and know several people who could support their families going into it who then had the financial rug pulled from under them.

Academic studentships and contracts are not what they used to be and they're getting worse every year. It's becoming impossible to plan long term for one now, and also friends have had their studentships regularly paid months late.

If people knew how bad it was, nobody would do it.

I could hazard a reasonable guess as to how much money our children have, and we have helped them out from time to time. They know how much our house is worth but I think they probably underestimate our savings (and I intend to keep it like that )

Mine wouldn't dare question my finances .When we die there will be a small amount in the bank for our 2 grandchildren and as the house will be split 6 ways they wont be rolling in it.It's not my job to leave them anything.

What a luxury it must be to work part time go to college or uni doing something you love and being given various handouts to keep you going.

Someone needs a kick into the real world. Which incidentally (for most) is not massive savings pots, valuable houses, part time jobs and final salary pensions.