The Multigenerational Financial Crisis

In the 1990s, newspaper columnists used to knit their brows about the popularity of trash TV. Everyone from retirees to teens home for summer vacation to the unemployable would sit at home and watch daytime talk shows where people complained about their sordid problems, from co-parenting conflicts to disputes over children’s paternity, and they would even come to blows often enough to keep us interested. This was so fascinating that we would sit through the endless commercial breaks, with boring ads for personal injury law firms, career colleges, and in South Florida, even cosmetic surgery clinics. We ignored the commercial breaks that told us that we would not be in our predicament if we had a personal injury settlement, an employable skill, or a more shapely derriere, because we did not want to solve our problems; we wanted to focus on the other broke chumps who were not us and whose predicament was not ours. Today’s web content, which is so plentiful that you could never watch all of it in a lifetime even if you didn’t take breaks to sleep, is so salacious that it makes the trash TV of the 90s look like Poor Richard’s Almanack, and the financial problems that your kids are watching it to get away from are several orders of magnitude more challenging than the ones you faced in your youth. Once you realize this, we can move forward. Addressing your own financial problems is the best way to help your children with theirs, and it is easier to do that with the help of a Boca Raton debt lawyer.

Your Kids’ Financial Struggles Are Not the Same Ones You Faced

Classic literature retains its appeal decade after decade and century after century because a quarter life crisis feels the same whether it is happening in the sooty streets of London in the 1860s or the sunny beaches of Miami in the present moment. This does not mean that your stories about how you coped with your financial problems in your youth are helpful to your children. So much has changed. Your feelings of uncertainty were like theirs, but the numbers on the spreadsheet were different; for that matter, it was probably a paper notebook instead of a spreadsheet. Almost every item on your budget costs less, relative to your income, than it does for your kids.

Go Into Coworker Mode, Not Parent Mode

In employment law, talking about your pay and other aspects of your financial situation is a legally protected activity. Pretend for a moment that your kids are your coworkers and dish the dirt about your current financial struggles. Fret about the pros and cons of taking early withdrawals from your retirement accounts. Angst about the fact that you don’t have long-term care insurance. Then set up a consultation with a debt relief lawyer for yourself, not your kids. Maybe they will follow suit.

Work With a Debt Lawyer About Financial Problems You Can Solve

A South Florida debt lawyer can help you if you are struggling with debt, but not as badly as your children are.  Contact Nowack & Olson, PLLC in Boca Raton, Florida to discuss your case.

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