High Priestess Lydia
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Aquarius said:Very true. In my case, I don't think my parents would do anything if I were to stay neeting for years, but I'm better than that lolHP. Hoodedcobra666 said:Cultural differences.Aquarius said:My gosh, stuff like this would appear on TV if it happened here in Italy, it's unheard of.
In the US, that is rather normal, as many people kick their kids out in the world's most developed economy [this was true in the previous decades] to find their own way. In the previous phases of the US economy, if you didn't live on your own while you could, you was probably just lazy. And this had actual facts in itself. But now the US economy and job market is not the same as in the 90's.
In the EU this would be considered a death sentence or the worst family relations. Because the economy was not like the American one. If you kick a person out in the EU, this could only work in the Northern countries, and you more than likely will have a child that will be hungry. In the EU you can also always return home, which is the reason many 40 year old NEET's do not activate themselves to live.
On the other side, in the US, if you kick your children out in an unsafe city after life has beaten them hard, there might not even be a safety net.
This is definitely not the time to kick your kids out though, as you said.
Asian families thrive because they stick together, they work for eachother and don't move out, good way to accumulate riches.
Cultural differences is correct. In America and Canada, it is considered something wrong with someone who is not living on their own or with housemates by age 19 or so, mentally or otherwise incapable of taking control of their own lives. They call it "freeloading" off of the parents. Parents might give you a year after high school to get your act together and move out, but you might have to pay rent in the meanwhile to your parents. And if you're in college then you're in the dormitories on campus. It's fucked up, but most families are like that.