Our society is infantile and neurotic, and growing moreso. We’ve been heading for decades towards the point where the majority of adults have unresolved psychological issues stemming from growing up in broken families. It’s no wonder that more and more want to use government as a replacement daddy.
I don’t think that a lot of them even have any particularly traumatic experiences to blame for not growing up. It has just become culturally popular and acceptable to act like bratty children.