to be hard pushed to think of ways in which life will be better for my dc (born early 2000s) than it was for my generation born early 60s?

[Mintyy]

Or in comprison to anyone born in the 70s/80s/90s tbh.

All I can think of is that they will be treated better if they report sexual or domestic abuse, or if they come out as gay. Those are excellent developments, and I am so glad about them.

But are there any other ways that life is better now?

Admittedly I am coming at this from a priviliged middle class angle, so was always warm enough and had mod cons in the early 60s, where I know millions in the UK did not.

Who knows what the future holds.

My dad was put in hospital in the sixties for being a bed wetter and wasn't allowed visits from his parents.

I was given an alarm that woke me up when I wet the bed and I stopped within a week.

My Grandad died in the seventies (in his 40s) from a heart attack.
My dad had his heart operated on and his life saved a few years ago.

My son's special needs have been picked up at the age of three and everything is being put in place to help him - I dread to think what would have happened to him had he been born a few decades ago.
He has a bright future ahead of him because he was born in 2011.

I think that it is swings and roundabouts as young people have a lot more choice in life than we had. When I did my A levels in 1978, none of us had ever been encouraged to pursue careers we would find fulfilling. It was very much "You're good at maths, apply for accountancy, you lot are good at science so push the boys to be doctors and the girls to nursing, physio, etc" Loads of my generation have been miserable at work and wish they had had the chance to do something else

Interestingly my DS and his lovely GF bought their first home this year 30 years after DH and I bought our first home. By coincidence it cost almost exactly ten times what ours cost but their combined salaries are less than three times what ours were. However they aren't paying 11% interest on their mortgage either!

Well, that's mostly positive then.
Hope you can stop worrying now Mintyy and have a happy Christmas.

DS was born in the early 2000s and has a diagnosis of AS - which didn't even exist as a diagnosis a few decades earlier. He is quite severely affected and has excellent provision (hard fought for) in a top private special school. I've read stories about children who lived through the 60s/70s who have been diagnosed as adults but never given support as children, who were bullied and had MH issues, ending up exploited or in prison or the mental health system, or dead through suicide or abuse. So that is something which I'm glad has improved.