Get off my lawn! says the older generation.  I am the older generation and I have daughters that are older millennials and they have been and are doing just fine. Regardless of the generation you are going to have the have and have nots, some kids will do well and some will not.   The older generation likes to blame everything on the present generation without considering the problems that the older generation caused the younger generation. It wasn't the millennials that shipped many jobs overseas, it wasn't the millennials that caused the housing crisis,  it wasn't the millennials that let bank charge high interest rates on student loans and it wasn't millennials that created the schools for profit that took the millennials money and did not train them for any meaningful jobs and left them with huge debt for nothing.  Last but not least what was considered important part of the success in one culture is consider a failure in another.