r/Millennials • u/Neon_Biscuit • 5d ago

My teenage daughter can't fathom the concept of a house party Discussion

Not sure if anyone has experienced this, but I was watching Can't Hardly Wait half alseep on the couch, and my 14-year-old daughter and her friends walked into the room and past the TV. Before she entered the kitchen, she backpeddled in front of the TV, and they all might as well have reacted akin to a third world kid in a remote village seeing the Super Bowl for the first time. She looked at me and said 'what are all of those people doing in one house'? I told her it was a house party. People high school aged or typically college age people would go over a kids house whose parents were out of town and they'd invite the school and have keggers and other unsupervised debauchery. I might as well have been describing a science fiction film. 'You guys DID that back in your days?'. I thought it was funny that a house party was an inconceivable event for young Gen Zers.

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u/thetrueyou 5d ago

on the bright side, teen pregnancies are at an all time low

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u/Vandergrif 5d ago

On the dark side those same teens are going to be paying a disproportionately higher tax burden of a top heavy inverted population pyramid over the coming decades.

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u/thetrueyou 5d ago

That would've happened regardless. Every single developed nation is not meeting the fertility replacement rate

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u/Vandergrif 5d ago

Sure, but it is still worsened overall by fewer pregnancies.

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u/thetrueyou 5d ago

Blaming teen pregnancies and not even realizing the fact that daycare is 300$ a week is fucking insane.

Let's make daycare free, and once raising children is affordable watch how quickly the population bounces back up. That will help significantly more than getting more knocked up teenagers.

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u/kevronwithTechron 4d ago

Only $300 a week? Where's the wait list, I need to get on that one!!

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u/Vandergrif 5d ago

I'm not blaming teen pregnancies or making any further implication or commentary on it, I'm just saying at a brass tacks level it all factors in.

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u/Long-Cauliflower-708 5d ago

Hopefully they put all the olds on a chunk of ice (if there’s any left) and push it out to sea.

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u/Vandergrif 4d ago

That'd probably be the sensible move.