By &quot;supporting them as adults for six to eight years (or longer)&quot; do you mean through college and graduate or professional school? If so, have you compared the costs of higher education (yes, inflation adjusted) in 1975 and 2015? A lot of us boomers contributed a good share of the costs of our colleges, but that was not because we were rugged individualists and hadn&#x27;t received trophies at the end of every soccer season; it was because it was a lot more doable.<p>(And some of my college was paid for by Social Security survivor&#x27;s benefits from a deceased parent. The first year of the Reagan Administration saw recipients cut off at the age of 18: I would have had subsidies cut off after one quarter of school, not three years. If having received this makes me a fellow traveler, so be it.)