For decades, eager, caring parents have worked to pass the keys of affluence down to their children. With them handed off, it is promised that doors of opportunity will fly open and the roads to success will be paved, enabling the children of the next generation to forge ahead onto their bright, carefree futures. Taking precautions to protect their offspring from every hindrance, caretakers rest assured their children are supplied with all the provisions needed to facilitate their inevitable successes. However, this seemingly flawless system has a paradoxical shortcoming; in sheltering children from these hardships, adolescents are prevented from attaining the work ethic required to pursue the very opportunities their parents worked so hard to provide for them. This protection has injured Generation Y’s ability to become meaningful contributors to society—for adversity, not prosperity, develops the tools needed for success...