Exactly right. Thank you, Theophilus.
Children need to be educated as much (if not more) in life (i.e. manliness, womanliness, marriage, parenthood, neighborliness) as they are in academics and “career prep”. Then they wouldn’t be so unprepared when the natural course of life comes upon them.
But no, we’d rather prescribe to them (A) 15 years of cold showers or (B) a hedonistic sex-fest life.
Again, this is nothing more than a manufactured problem.
Our culture is exceedingly mis-anthropic and inhumane. Like harpies we steal what is best in life if not life itself from our children. We enslave them with constantly expanding tax commitment to pay for government ponzi schemes. We spend their inheritance to "educate" them in liberal institutions filled with bitter, cynical, perverse and/or depraved professors. We encourage debt and all consuming careers in order for them to heap up utterly worthless yet expensive material things. And the icing on the cake is how we ruin God's 1st and sweetest common gift: the marital relationship. I'll tell you, the divorce lawyers and the soddomites are merely defacing a corpse because we tell our strapping young men and blooming young women that they have to finish an education, establish a career and then search for a mate like they would buy a car, always test driving, sometimes leasing and never knowing love and creating beautiful children with eternal souls.
Hey, Bristol we had our first when I was 22 and our latest at 38 and I can tell you it was a lot easier at 22 :-)