Home Sweet Home

The reason why I chose this article is because it discusses one of the most interesting dilemmas in society today, which is that of children, or to be more precise, young adults, who are unable to cope with the outside world. It slowly becomes an increasingly common phenomenon, especially in the United States and in other European countries, thanks to various socio-economic reasons.

The article was written by Barbara Cornell in a newspaper, and the article basically mentions pieces of numerous stories to exemplify this growing phenomenon, and the newspaper article cites such reasons as “a rising marriage age”, “high divorce rate”, and a “decline in remarriage rate” as the main reasons why young people, who are supposed to be budding professionals, come back home with a sense of defeat, hopelessness, and cynicism towards the world as a whole.

I wonder why people can’t create their own lives outside school nowadays. Is it due to a personal matter? Or is it due to the problems of an increasingly outdated educational system as a whole?

The answer may lie in the development path that many children have nowadays: Most people almost get everything by their teens, causing them to think that there’s nothing more to explore and discover in the future, which in turn, causes a reduced motivation for them to direct their lives.

In addition, the people themselves are also to blame for this phenomenon: Just as the Chinese proverb that says, “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.”; most people nowadays do not know the meaning of this verb, and as for those who do, either they are really awfully rich, or they are working hard to save themselves from the economic crisis that plagues America as a whole today.

My solution is that people should be educated in parenting…and that people should learn more about the world; to be more specific, let them earn the principle that “working hard is the only way to survive”. For these children…or young adults don’t just remain in the home; they also give headaches to their parents who are supposedly enjoying the fruits of their hard work in their old age!