We're raising a crop of spoiled adults.
But I think it's more basic. With women it's always been about coverture. In the old days, a lady was covered by her father, or her brother(s), because a male was deemed the only one competent to protect against other males. After her family, she was covered by her husband.
Coverture is an ancient common law concept and practice and is just as valid today as it was, like the master/servant relationship at law which is now called the employer/employee relationship.
The coverture has largely been passed, and feminists groups are trying to get it fully passed, from the men in her life to the national government.
Personally, if I were a woman, I would rather be covered by a serial rapist than the Congress of the United States.
(Sorry for the lengthly explanation, but too many folks have never heard of coverture even tho they act under it every day)