Generation Z are even holding firm that the parent should contribute 52 per cent of the family holiday funds. I am 60 at the end of this year and I wanted to organise a special family holiday to celebrate. When are children going to realise that at some point they’re no longer children and that they need to stand on their own two feet financially speaking? A family holiday when I was in my twenties would have been unthinkable. When are children going to realise that at some point they’re no longer children and that they need to stand on their own two feet financially speaking?