Americans do a lot of maturing, gaining life experience, building interpersonal skills, etc. during our twenties. I can't see much of that happening for me in f

Americans do a lot of maturing, gaining life experience, building interpersonal skills, etc. during our twenties. I can't see much of that happening for me in front of my parents. I have some idea of the person I would be if I had simply replaced high school with work as my daytime activity, and I don't like it. I suspect that this process hsa a lot to do with society changing over time, and I don't think the overlap between traditional cultures and living at home is accidental. When parents maintain supervision and control over their children for their whole lives, rather than just the first 18 years, there is less room for the generation to drift into different norms.