How so?
Really: How so?
Regards,
When I was that age, I worked two part time jobs, had a car, and always had my own money in my pocket. By that age, I didn't have to tell my parents a darn thing about where I was going or who I was going to see. If I wasn't going to come home that night, all I'd have to do is let them know so they could turn the porch light off and go to bed.
By the time I was 18, I was out of the house completely. Back then, it was an EMBARRASSMENT to be living with your parents after that age, unless maybe you were home from college, and women wouldn't take you seriously if you were of adult age and still living with mommy and daddy.
It is nothing like today where many 16 years olds are still having their parents drive them to school or wait with them at the school bus stop. They are tethered to their parents with their cellphones 24/7. The teenagers of today are so infantilized, compared to the way it used to be.