Yep, gotta agree with this article.
It has nothing to do with the fact that they have to get a learner’s license now, and you can’t get a full license in some states until you’re 21.
Back in the day when dinosaurs roamed the earth, you could test at 16 and get your full license and away you go. But that was the Boomer age - today, boomers didn’t think their kids should have the freedom they had, so they don’t.
In CA in the 60's, you could get a learners permit at 15 1/2, which would allow you to ride a mororcycle alone or drive a car with someone over 18.
What’s interesting is that back in the ‘Boomer days’ you keep grousing about, a 30yo wasn’t considered a youngster, but a full adult.
Intergenerational resentments used to be individual and particular to whatever family member was being resented for whatever reason. Those specific resentments now seem to be repressed, with the emotion coming out against said parents’ whole generational cohort, perhaps as a result.
not true...only DC does that till 21 ...most states are 16/17 and 3 or 4 that are 18
you wish to blame someone...blame insurance companies
and this hike started in the 70s when boomer's parents and grandparents were the political power of age then
i got mine in a small southern state in 1972 at 15...it's 16 now
what has made younger men such pussies today?
really?
their mothers and lack of daddies or soft subservient dads...and the culture
I'm 54 and have 5 children from 5-23...I grant them pretty much same freedom I had...it drives my contemporary strong chinnned Gen X moms crazy...they view me as a Neandethal
I would say it's cause I'm southern but high cotton Nashville environs are eat up with wussy men and gays...
the Deep South seems to have escaped it better