At some point these people did an analysis and come to a conclusion that both you and I disagree with. We may wish to dismiss the factors I have mentioned, but ultimately those factors could have influenced the decision resulting in the mindset in question.
This mindset is foreign to the both of us. There have always been some people out there like this. The question is, why are so many choosing this path today?
In our day it would have been personally unacceptable to remain home into the mid or late twenties, most certainly into the 30s.
They didn’t do an analysis, their parents didn’t push them to adulthood. They were basically raised like dogs, once they stopped peeing on the carpet further development was not expected. So they got up to the point of being 16 and found life to be perfect, they access to a car, they had access to money, they had no responsibilities, and they were quite comfortable. And they’re parents are willing to put up with it year after year after year.
I’ve lost track of the number of times I’ve had the exact same conversation with David’s (my nephew-in-law) parents and grandparents. They say they don’t know what to do with him, I say kick him out and cut him off, they say they can’t do that. 2 months before I graduated high school my mom sat me down and explained I was going to be an adult soon and with that came responsibilities, I was getting June for free as a graduation present, I was getting July for free as a birthday present, but August 1 I was paying rent, how much rent depended on what kind of job I got, but no job was not going to equate to no rent I’d have to work it off around the house. In the 26 years since I’ve spent less than a cumulative year unemployed. David’s family doesn’t even expect him to do basic chores.
We’ve got a large group of parents out there that quite simply didn’t parent. And for their punishment they have 16 year-olds in their 30s.