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Try sixty-something with an adult child. There is a disease going around among the "youngsters" who are parents these days. I'd call it overprotectiveness, but
by Hizonner 11mo ago
Try sixty-something with an adult child.
There is a disease going around among the "youngsters" who are parents these days. I'd call it overprotectiveness, but it doesn't actually protect anybody, just stunts them and actually makes them vulnerable. What it is is what's known as a purity spiral, a dangerous form of groupthink in which people compete to be the most extreme.
- llbbdd 11mo agoSee also the hard-to-separate growing cohort of people who never leave their parents homes long after becoming adults, not because there are no opportunities to pursue, but because they only know how to do things they are given express permission and direction to do because that's all they've known.
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- engineer_22 11mo agoNah dude. Stay away from other people's kids, it's not a new rule.