Sometimes we are known as "The Sandwich Generation"
'Today's "Sandwich Generation" has a unique financial burden. 
Many families not only have to provide for themselves and 
their children, but also for their aging parents as well.'
(quoted New York Life) 


The Boomers' Burden 

Mellody Hobson, president of Ariel Capital 
Management in Chicago, said a lot baby boomers 
are supporting their parents and their kids at 
the same time. (ABCNEWS.com)  Baby Boomers 
Supporting Kids and Parents

C H I C A G O, Aug. 1 — Baby boomers make up 
what's being called the "Sandwich Generation" 
because people between the ages of 45 and 55 
are finding themselves wedged between financial 
obligations: their children's college tuition, 
their aging parents' living expenses, and their 
own retirement savings.  
  
Of the nearly 2,500 boomers surveyed by the 
AARP, 48 percent thought they should be doing 
more for their elderly parents. Meanwhile, 69 
percent of those polled felt their children 
should help care for them in their old age, 
signaling that the next generation will be 
sandwiched too. 
The Social Security Administration estimates 
76 million baby boomers will be retiring 
during this century. Good Morning America's 
financial contributor Mellody Hobson, 
president of Ariel Capital Management in 
Chicago, said the boomers' burdens evolved, 
children. 

Strained Resources

"When their children are teenagers and ripe
for college, their parents are well into their 
70s or 80s, and they need help themselves," 
Hobson said. So the boomers often find 
themselves simultaneously looking at college 
campuses and nursing homes. 

The situation is further exacerbated by the 
fact that boomers tend to be big spenders and 
have racked up both credit card debt and hefty
mortgages, perhaps in defiance of their scrimping 
and saving parents, who were forced into 
frugality during the Depression. 

"Many boomers live beyond their means, 
sacrificing their financial futures," 
Hobson said. "That means children and 
parents become a strain on already strained resources." 

  
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