- Millennials are the generation born between 1981 and 1996.
- In some ways, their life is harder than it was for their parents at the same age.
- Many millennials are struggling financially and emotionally. Even online dating isn't as easy as it might seem.
Everyone likes to think that their life is hard, that their problems are bigger and less solvable than anyone else's.
But for millennials - the generation born between 1981 and 1996 - that might in fact be true. Many of these 20- and 30-somethings are struggling financially, emotionally, and even in the love department, in ways that their forebears weren't.
Below, we've listed some of the most significant ways in which life is harder for millennials than it was for their parents.