Thats not the case, I spent years working my craft to get paid enough to support a family, I roomed with others and learned what it was to be an adult.

The premise that as soon as you work you should be making $70k is preposterous! And I would suggest don't have a family and kids if you cannot afford to. We need some personal Responsibility back.

There are Adult jobs, skilled, experienced jobs, and teenager jobs! If someone is an adult 30-40+ years old working at Wendy's they made horrible choices and decisions in life and its not societies fault! These low skill jobs are meant for teens to make money and acclimate themselves into the working fields, and have some cash for Summer break!

While my friends were getting high, and shitfaced I was homeless sleeping in the Bridge Street abandoned Mills, sleeping in ATMS and working doing anything i could to learn skills!

I sacrificed partying and being cool for my skillset, at 25 I bought a house albeit a really really really shitty house, I had a home! I had no furniture for a year and slept on a air mattress, my son, girlfriend and I ate Macaroni and cheese for all our meals, and we watched a 13 inch black in white tv for 1 year, until I got a raise at work allowing me to do better for them!

If you want adult pay, you must do an adult job, the paperboy doesn't make $70k a year either...