[quote=ninaprincess]I have been in the US half of my life but one thing I still don’t understand it that many American parents kick their children out of the house. Initially I heard people talking about it and I thought they were joking. I brought this up because I just read an article in yahoo about a 23 yr old homeless girl who was kicked out of the parents’ house.
My parents hated that we moved out of the house. They won’t take my money when I stayed with them. My mom would do wash my clothes and clean my room eventhough I told her not too. This is the same case for all of my cousins.[/quote]
Well, nina, I’m sure your culture is it’s own flavor of crazy. But, I will comment on America’s insanity, because that is what I study. Basically, we are a toxic brew of self-centered, gluttonous entitlement mentality, coupled with a darwinian sink or swim attitude, that we think is needed to keep people from becoming lazy parasites. All under an umbrella of a marco-irrationality, which makes it all the more interesting. This is setting the stage for quite the social train wreck, I think.
In every other modern post industrial economy you could have attended college for free as long as you chose to, and been given free healthcare and a stipend to live on while you did it. This would be heresy in the US.
Clawing down basic things like an education in such a competitive, reptilian environment makes people hard.
Anyway, I’ve been hearing a lot of complaining about “kids today” by boomers. If I was kids today, I would be pissed about the mess and suicidal trajectory we have set up. Just wait until the youth goes all Greek Anarchist for the massive amounts of debt we left them, much to prop up our retirements, 401ks and RE, in the coming years as the economy deteriorates.
Maybe those kids that don’t leave home are subconsciously and preemptively revolting for the mess that has yet to come to full fruition, that their parents allowed to happen. lol
