New breed of teens cherish family values TODAY’S young adults are conserva- tive, job-jumping and parents’ pets according to a new study. More than two-thirds of teens and twenty-somethings plan to change jobs in the next year. Far from rebelling against their elders, 89 per cent value their parents’ opinions, ranking them more important than the views of friends. The research commissioned by Inter- national Customer Service Professio- nals revealed bad news for bosses. Few members of Generation Y plan to stay in their jobs for long. And the two- thirds planning to change jobs in the next year rose to more than 90 per cent desiring a change in the next two years. The conservative youngsters indi- cated a return to valuing family over Liam Houlihan youth reporter careers, with marriage and children on the cards for the vast majority. Seven in 10 intend to marry before they turned 30 and 93 per cent plan on having between one and three children. “Generation Y believe (their elders) Generation X have sacrificed marriage and children for careers and they do not intend doing the same thing,” survey head Ms Avril Henry said. “Their motto is you work to live, not. live to work. Most see themselves in two years time in a different career, travel- ling and working overseas, studying at a tertiary institution or running their own small business.”