Some of the problems are:
1. Children are too often denied opportunities for real responsibilities - work - even to a very late “teenage”. In that respect they are treated like infants, babies long after being productive could have already been instilled in them.
2. But when it comes to sexual morality, children are sexualized throughout the advertising, TV, print and film media at younger and younger ages - sexualized toward situations they have neither the mental or emotional maturity to handle. In that respect they are treated like “adults”; when they in fact are not.
So, what is a sexualized adult with no sense of personal responsibility - a narcissist.
I had a student once tell me that the university should provide free contraceptives to all the students. After all, she said, we’re adults now and can have sex. I asked her why she couldn’t buy her own contraceptives since she’s an adult. She just stared at me as if to say, “Like, it’s too much trouble to drive to the pharmacy every time”.
They THINK they’re adults, and they want to do adult things that are “fun”, but don’t want any of the responsibilities of adulthood. They want mommy & daddy, or a surrogate mommy & daddy (the university administration, their employer, the government...) to provide for them.
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