Michel Boucher wrote:
> "gloria.p" > wrote in -
> september.org:
>
>> What will happen to them after the older generation dies? How will they
>> ever learn to make their own kids self-sufficient? It sounds as though
>> they will end up in the gutter anyway because there will be no one left
>> to bail them out and they never learned to live on their own, within
>> their means.
>
> So we should ignore their need and let them die early out of compassion?
>

Michel, I'm not criticizing you nearly as much as you think, but I know
you have heard the old adage: "Give a man a fish and he eats for a day,
teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime." (Or as long as there
are fish....) I would help my kids in an instant if they were truly
desperate but I can't imagine either of them in that situation without
trying to fish for themselves.

gloria p