We take it for granted that our children will be better off than us but the so-called millennials – anyone born in the 1980s or 1990s – could become the first generation to earn less than their parents. And are those parents, mostly baby boomers who benefited from economic good times, tax cuts and free higher education to blame?

Recommendations for what children need during and after a divorce continue to evolve with research, which increasingly points to choices parents make that can benefit or harm their children. Experts now say, for example, that absent abuse or neglect, children benefit from having strong relationships with both parents. They note that parents dissolving a union should make family-related decisions with a laser focus on what is best for their kids.

Never before has a generation of children been so anxious, entitled, fragile, over-medicated and lacking resilience. The correlation has been troubling parenting experts for the past decade: why, when we have access to so much information about parenting, are our children doing so badly?

The conflicts are mainly between grandmothers and their daughters-in-law. Traditionally, men made the money and women controlled the family. Now, those roles are shared, but some of us still feel our mothers-in-law have an overweening bond with their sons – our husbands.

Disabled children, including those with learning disabilities, were about 20 percent more likely to report being bullied than other students in surveys taken at a New England school district. And that difference remained steady from third through 12th grades, the researchers found.

Until every employer realises that it’s perfectly acceptable – and not perfectly audacious – to have a job and a family, women will still bear the brunt of feeling crazy, busy and guilty. And that’s not good enough.