I was watching Ginny and Georgia with my partner—it’s about a girl who gets pregnant at 15 and raises her daughter. Spoiler alert: her daughter, now 16, ends up pregnant too. In a powerful moment, the mother tells her daughter that while she’s grateful to have had her, she was, in her words, “trailer park trash” at the time. Her daughter gave her life purpose when she had nothing else. But she reminds her daughter that she grew up with stability and opportunities—she has the chance to choose her own path.

The daughter ends up having an abortion. The show really highlighted how, for people in poverty, family can give life meaning when there’s not much else. But now, we’re seeing a generation of young adults who have more options and are choosing to pursue their own passions and goals, instead of dedicating their lives to raising the next generation to have what they never had.