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After providing for their children all their lives, most parents would be forgiven for thinking they'd earned a couple of summer holidays.

But these well deserved luxuries apparently make the younger generation's 'blood boil' as two in five millennials fear their parents are frittering away their inheritance.

Almost a fifth of young people surveyed said their 'spendthrift' parents are selfish and fail to consider their children's or grandchildren's economic wellbeing, according to a survey.

Many youngsters feel their parents have a responsibility to give them money for the future – which could potentially help pay off a mortgage.