The concept of the “perpetual childhood” is a very new one and it only occurs in leftist western societies.
You ever do any genealogy, hun? I am guessing not because you would have found out that no one sat around attached to their parents wallets like a leech like the perpetual children of today do. You also would have found out that a great proportion of your ancestors were married while still teenagers and had 2-3 kids by the time they were 20. Now how in the hell did all these “emotionally immature, financially unstable” people manage to raise a family? Because they were not allowed by life or society to remain perpetual children like the wallet leeches of today are. You would have also found that alot of families were run by single parents, too. Being abandoned by a spouse or being a widow/widower was common. Abandonment of children was also common-for example my great great grandfather was a widower and he put his son in a orphanage because he could not support or take care him and none of the relatives could afford to do so, either.
People back then knew that life was unfair and hard, too-they learned that there are winners and more importantly LOSERS. They did not have the leftist teacher union psychobabble about how “everyone is a winner” because if there are winners and losers then someone’s “self esteem” might get bruised. They knew that if they wanted to eat and to live they had to work and work hard, not sit in their parent’s basement and pouting because mommy and daddy won’t buy them the big screen 3D TV they want.
People back then also had a strong moral and societal foundation. Over the last 70 years those foundations have been burned to the ground by the leftists and their agendas.
Unfortunately for today’s wallet leeches who are mired in perpetual childhood are going to learn that reality is a very harsh mistress who doesn’t suffer fools lightly. Once the money is gone (and that day is soon coming) they have nothing to offer and are too lazy and too full of “self esteem” to do what it will take in order for them to survive. It is rapidly turning into a dog eat dog world and the wallet leeches are all wearing milk bone underwear.
People who make comments such as the one you did enable the perpetual children to never face the harsh realities of life because you assume that no one under the age of 30 has the “emotional maturity or financial stability” to raise a family.
FYI-My sister had her first child at 16, her second at 18. She was abandoned by her “husband” at the age of 22. She was a grandmother at the age of 36. She managed to raise her children just fine, thankyouverymuch. They may not have had all the toys and other things they wanted growing up but they always had a roof over their heads, food on the table and were loved. Today those children work hard and are successful in what they do, have taken good care of their finances and not gone into debt and are good parents.
You'd be wrong. Most of my ancestors (back to the 1700s) didn't have children until they were around 30. My parents were 34 when I was born, my grandfather was 43 when his first children were born. I'm almost 36 and I haven't had children (or gotten married) yet. Now, my father was in his early 20s when he married his first wife and had a child, and it broke apart because she was nowhere near ready to be settled into a responsible relationship and dragged my elder half-sister through an abusive second marriage. My half-sister didn't get married until she was around 30 and had 2 kids by the time she was about 34.
"People who make comments such as the one you did enable the perpetual children to never face the harsh realities of life because you assume that no one under the age of 30 has the “emotional maturity or financial stability” to raise a family."
I'm sorry if you don't like my comments, but you already reinforced a lot of them in your post. We can "pretend" that most are ready today (or should be "forced" to recognize the harshness of life -- as if that will somehow change the dynamic) or we can acknowledge the reality and figure out they're not. I've seen far too many that aren't and have no business having children. I always urge youngsters (especially young women, since they're the ones that bare the brunt of the burden) not to have children until they're at least around 25, in a committed relationship/married, and in a stable job.