Most kids here are interested in the market.
Because a lot of their dads have become pretty rich and that's why they get to live in a gigantic house. A new sort of American childhood is being forged in the land where each day brings the dawn of an estimated 60 new millionaires. But along with a new openness about money, and the good things it can bring, have come concerns about the effect of Silicon Valley's bountiful wealth on children, issues that are likely to escalate as the post-adolescent entrepreneurs, barely old enough themselves to have graduated from Ramen noodles on a hot plate, come of age. Financial institutions are also responding. The things we hear on the news are happening all around us.