I agree parenting support and the money cushions rich kids from life's problems. I used those three as examples of grown up problems that hit successful people in their thirties these days.
The college admission, the career, the marriage all happen more or less on auto pilot if you merely turn up for life and don't mess up bad. A good school gets a good college which gets a good career etc. In the traditional affluent Indian family of fifty-hundred years ago the support system would have extended all the way through life. Through raising the kids, through getting them married, through retirement and death. But then adult life these days involves leaving the family and living alone or as a couple in strange new towns and countries. That's usually when they find themselves in the rain with no umbrella. On Aug 24, 2013 8:57 AM, "SS" <cybers...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, 2013-08-23 at 23:23 +0530, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote: > > Privileged kids don't usually face serious hardship that shatters > > their confidence until their start-up fails, their marriage tanks or > > their addictive habits get the better of them. > > While I agree with the general point you make about self help books, the > above assertion is inaccurate to the extent that privileged kids have > far faaar many more opportunities to have their confidence shattered > than those three reasons. It's just that parents of privileged kids can > provide the buffer required in terms of money and time to help their > kids recover. > > shiv > > >
