Generation X-ers who are in line to take over the family business often lack any desire to run the family factory, preferring fashionable jobs in marketing, public relations, finance and business services. Family businesses offer limited career growth...Marriage breakdowns have also left very fragmented families...a younger generation [is] more sceptical of social institutions and family values and more comfortable with short-term investment and plans.

From an article in BRW, July 14-20, by Amanda Gome