2023-12-12 11:08:00
Faced with the current “gloomy” context – rising cost of living, environmental crisis, or even intergenerational conflict – it appears that the majority of young people interviewed say they are “worried” when it comes to formulating some plan for the future. .
It is all the more difficult for them to plan ahead as some have difficulty meeting their daily needs, particularly in terms of food.
“For shopping, I’m tightening my belt. I’m really waiting until there’s nothing left in my fridge to do my shopping. And I don’t think it’s going to get better,” explains N. , 24 years. “I have friends, three quarters of their diet was pasta with ketchup sauce,” adds L., 20 years old.
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With real estate prices continuing to rise, many young people fear they will never be able to access housing. “Food, housing and energy are becoming luxury products,” explains the Forum.
“I thought that being an adult meant buying your house. But as I think that I will never be able to, I will never be able to be an adult,” laments A., 28 years old.
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An increasingly unclear future
Beyond these material difficulties, a more general loss of meaning emerges from the recent report. “For young people, the future is becoming increasingly vague, even anxiety-provoking, especially given the urgency of the climate crisis – to which political responses appear very weak,” we can read.
The feeling, for young French-speaking Belgians, that “society is disinterested in their daily lives and does not trust them, often imagining them ‘at war’ once morest the older generations” also emerges from the testimonies.
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In search of meaning and facing an uncertain future, young people are therefore becoming more involved, sometimes seeking answers outside of the patterns of their ancestors. Some say they are abandoning the idea of parenthood. Others find in religion an answer, a “source of appeasement”. Finally, many young people express their regret at not sharing more with other generations, which would help bridge this intergenerational gap.
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