My wife was 16 and I 18 when we got married(no she wasn’t pregnant lol). We’re on our 20th year. Our oldest daughter is 16, and I couldn’t imagine her getting married. She can’t even do laundry without asking for help.
The level of maturity decreases in ratio to the amount of coddlement...: )
That’s the primary difference between 16 year olds 50 years ago and today.
Maybe is just an obviously successful way to get out of chores.....
Yep, it takes more effort to teach one’s off-spring than to just do it for them.
I have witnessed a certain, not incompetency, but lack of adequate competency in the younger people around me. That lack of competency shows itself frequently in life's basic skills. Too many things have come too easily for too many of within the last 50 to 40 years.
Dittos here; I was 18 she was 16. 40 years this December. Did a career in USN. She keeps reminding me she is not a teenager anymore. I keep forgetting. Youngest is married and has a wonderful family. Lots of home schooling in there also.