#RetirementLiving - Issue 47 April/May 2020 April/May 2020 | Page 42

retirement & But as our lives get longer, our childhood gets longer, too, so our children are dependent for longer, which means we have to work for longer. And, here’s the interesting bit: our retirement gets longer too. So the cast-in-stone order in which the mid-20th-century child became an adult, a spouse and householder and a parent has changed. Significantly. Musical houses, musical jobs Generation Z and Millennials tend to study longer, stay comfortably with their parents for longer, and – generally – take longer to make 20 R E T I R E M E N Y T R E N D S