For the left:
you should have sex starting at 12
you should be able to marry at 14
you should have a free abortion at any age
you should be able to vote at 16
you should be tried as a minor until age 21
you should stay on your parents’ insurance until age 26
What’s the age of maturity again?
A friend of the family has a daughter, who is 27 and never grew up.
She lives with somebody, but she doesn’t work, doesn’t go to school, doesn’t do anything with her life. Her guy apparently supports her. She spends her days watching Harry Potter and going to blogs which talk about Harry Potter. And she does arts and crafts at home. She never goes anywhere, just stays home. She’s made comments when we visited at Christmas at how she feels like she’s growing up, because she invited people over and hosted a Christmas party. Yet she acts like a kid, at age 27.
I shudder to think what her life will be like in a few years. She’s an example of a young person who never made a transition to adulthood. She’s never had adult responsibilities. She’s always lived with a boyfriend after she moved out of her mom’s house.
The trauma the snowflakes are experiencing over Trump winning the election is nothing compared to the inevitable reality check that will hit them like a ton of bricks. Wait until the cupcakes graduate from these overpriced diploma mills. What will they do when they realize their masters in Ubangi transgender studies, Aztec lesbian drum beating or whatever irrelevancies they’re majoring in won’t qualify them to operate a French fry machine at McDonald’s for minimum wage?
Raise the voting age. Now.
But frankly, I don't think anyone becomes a true adult until they're handed and successfully manage (as evidenced by the results a decade or two later) the responsibility of raising a child, or better yet children. I can still remember my middle of the night shock awake in a cold sweat lying next to my heavily pregnant wife as when I first fully realized the implications of "adulthood".
I predict this whole thread will be old people ripping young people.
Every generation grows up in a milieu. The millennials were often raised by low pay maids and daycare workers. They often did not have quantity time with someone who loved them more than life. They were not allowed to be too self reliant because every day were news like Jon Benet and molestations, which had never been talked about when their parents as kids were told, be back by sundown. “Bad” parents who let their kids roam unsupervised were shown on the 11 pm news, crying inconsolably, as if to blame for the tragedy that befell their child.
Two of my kids are millennials and they are great people. I roll my eyes at old people thinking the younger generation won’t amount to much. That has been going on since the cavemen.
This is quite an interesting topic for me. For some reason, I never thought of myself as a “grown up” until one day, I realized the pro ball-players were younger than I was...
Make no mistake - I was out and on my own immediately after graduation from college at age 22 (but then again, a Mechanical Engineering degree is VERY marketable). But even being out on my own, I still didn’t really feel “grown up”.
Then, I had a son. That was the final nail in the coffin. I was forced to realize that I was now responsible for my family.
But my “feeeelings” didn’t stop me from doing what I needed to do. I always ACTED grown up, but never felt that way. Sort of different from the snowflakes.
I guess I’ll feel OLD when I can’t play softball any more. (I’m 57 now, and refusing to give up!)
By the way, both my sons got my “You will be out of my house by age 18, or when you graduate college.” Those are two “millenials” who are rock solid, and will shoulder their responsibilities. Great sons, good men already.