Sentences with phrase «than their parents did»

It's more difficult for them to land good jobs, according to a study from the Pew Research Center, in spite of the fact that more millennials are getting college degrees than their parents did.

By the time he's done, it's hard to dispute his conclusion, based on hard facts, that «America's kids will live far better than their parents did.»

With today's economy and the meteoric rise in the numbers of single parents, many young families have it tougher than their parents did.

«Although earning slightly more than their parents did in the 1980s, millennials need to pay more to get their foot in the housing door,» he said, adding that the average house price in 2011 was ten times the median salary of a young family.

Thiel has pointed out, reasonably enough, that America's political system is stuck in a long period of gridlock and the current generation of young Americans faces dimmer financial prospects than their parents did.

Millennials are growing their families, and in many ways they want to do it differently than their parents did, as they should.

On average, Millennials under 25 spend 4.2 % more of their income on education than their parents did.3 Higher costs have meant more student debt which has put a damper on spending.

As a percentage of total spending, Boomers are expected to spend 3.4 % more on health care than their parents did, and through 2060 will contribute to a 1.04 % annual growth rate in this sector by sheer number of new customers alone.

And, yes, America's kids will live far better than their parents did.»

But according to new data from Trulia, today's buyers are actually enjoying a much more affordable market than their parents did 40 years ago.

Baby boomers in their 50s and 60s are carrying much more mortgage debt than their parents did at their age.

«Realistically, most people who are reading this article probably should expect to work a little bit longer than their parents did,» said Tim Koller, a partner with the consulting firm McKinsey.

If you're Bob Dylan in the «60s, you give people permission to think differently than their parents did.

They took advantage of their educational opportunities and did better than their parents did and they certainly were poor.

This land's children have more rights than their parents do and it's due in part to the drugstore revolution explodion in duggie srcipts being sold at an ever increasing rate!

Young people are seeing the world differently than our parents did, and they are turning away from religion in droves.

Thankfully, we have more scientific information about casual sex than our parents did when they drove their Volkswagen buses to Woodstock for a dose of the sexual revolution.

Perhaps it is true that the media — especially television — have prompted many young adults to take a more nonchalant approach to sports than their parents did, but I for one have been an avid fan since the age of four.

William Carson (Nemo) Herrera was a fronterizo, a child of the borderland like his players, and he probably knew them better than their parents did.

We're living longer than our parents did; «till death do us part» could mean 60, 70 years together instead of 20 or 30 in the days when we didn't live so long.

CHRISTINE STEWART - FITZGERALD: That's kind of an interesting thought — say, rather than the parents doing all the talking but really giving the kid opportunities to talk.

We have more knowledge than our parents did so we can make smarter decisions that are better for our children and the world we live in.

On the flip side, Gluck says sometimes children end up relating to the old boyfriend or girlfriend longer than a parent does.

This was my greatest learning experience, so that I could do the most important work than any parent does — help my children grow up to be mature, responsible, caring, and considerate adults.

They may not give more gifts than the parents do, or give more expensive gifts unless the parents agree.

Plus, we have it tons better than our parents did.

Keep in mind that at any age, kids simply have different priorities than parents do!

Guilt - ridden busy moms and dads take heart: Mothers — and fathers — across most Western countries are spending more time with their children than parents did in the mid -»60s, according to a University of California, Irvine study.

Young people today have more dating options than their parents did, but that doesn't mean it's easy to find and connect with a compatible person.

«Students are now dating earlier than our parents did.

I have seen other educational researchers and reformers frame it in the opposite way, saying that on weekdays teachers have students for more hours of the day than their parents do.

Are they using their cars differently than their parents did?

Another survey — this one, done in Great Britain, I'm pleased to say — finds that young people are reading fewer books than their parents did.

Be thankful that you can still get a better interest rate than your older brother or sister did ten years ago, a lower rate than your parents did twenty years ago, and a better rate than your grandparents did forty years ago.

We all know that we make far more in dollar terms than our parents did 25 years ago.

But according to new data, today's buyers are actually enjoying a much more affordable market than their parents did 40 years ago.

A more prudent solution is to accept that most of us will need to save more money than our parents did.

I'd even make the case that the boomers generally married and started forming families roughly 10 years later than their parents did; say on average at age 29 instead of 19.

Though you may have missed getting the lowest mortgage rate ever offered, you can still get a better interest rate than your older brother or sister did ten years ago, a lower rate than your parents did twenty years ago, and a better rate than your grandparents did forty years ago.

I'm all about reading and I hope the younger generation does it a little more than their parents did.

Our clients, the members of Generations X and Y, have a different relationship with money than their parents did.

In most cases, hybrid dogs have fewer health concerns than their parents do, but some of the potential health problems that may affect the Beagle Bulldog mix include:

While the oldest Millennials (those born in 1980 of after) are part of that latter statistic, Millennials as a whole have fewer credit cards than their parents did at the same age.

Any government asking their citizens to live «less well off» than their parents did, to mitigate any supposed rise in temperature, should be summarily dismissed.

Even if these people have fewer children than their parents did, there will be a time lag in the demographic transition during which the number of births still exceeds the number of deaths and the population continues to rise significantly.

Millennials purchase homes much later in life than their parents did, and often those homes are significantly smaller than the suburban mansions once so highly prized.

If you want to succeed in today's job search, you'll have to take a much different approach than your parents did.

I differ with attachment therapists in that they believe this is suppose to continue into adulthood, and your partner is suppose to take over and do a better job than your parents did.

Researchers discovered that when teenagers viewed the parenting strategies of their parents more undesirably than their parents did, they displayed higher levels of hostile behaviors.

A lot of research shows that the parenting team offers more than each parent does individually, and that a supportive team gives children their best shot at success in life.