The Middle Class Parental Mindset

"Have kids so they can take care of you," they say.

My daughter moved to Seattle, and I didn't want her to live on campus," the father said, "so we bought her a small condo about 10 minutes away from school.

This was the statement made by a gentleman I've known for over 15 years. (For the sake of this article, we'll call him Scuba Steve.) Scuba Steve ran a financial services company with his partners and …