Isn't it?
Do children these days really think so little of their mums? My daughter and I are really close. She's late-twenties and is as disturbed by the way society is heading as I am.
I have friends with grandchildren in their late teens/early twenties. They're lazy, ignorant and completely unprepared for life. Their parents and grandparents do everything for them and pay for everything as most aren't working. The ones in college/uni are doing courses in what I can only describe as la-la. Completely useless qualifications that won't get them good jobs.
One grandchild has signed and is pushing a petition asking for people over 70 to be euthanised as they use too many resources and cost too much to keep. I kid you not.
This is the same kid that asks nanna for money for everything from coffees (several a day yet they're too busy to clean their own room or help out with chores - not that they know how to do anything!) to driving lessons to holidays. Oh, and if nanna accidentally refers to them by the wrong pronoun they will strop for a week and threaten suicide.
Why are people letting this happen? The contempt this kid has for their parents and grandparents (though the grandfather is thoroughly fed up and avoids his grandchild as much as he can - wise bloke) is shocking. He's having driving lessons (I heard he was up to the 31st last week) in an electric car as the fossil fuel crisis, as he never fails to mention, is the older generation's fault and they should be "made to pay". Made to pay?
Parents don't parent these days. I despair. I don't have that much long on this planet if we go by the three score and ten, but I worry so much for my daughter. The odds are stacked against her purely due to her sex but I truly worry about her future. I've brought her up to be independent and she has a great job in the NHS/teaching sector but I still worry. She's yet to meet a man that she wants to settle down with (that is my fault as her biological father is a horrible man and is enough to put any woman off for life) but I still dream of a happy family life for her.
Wow! That was quite a vent - sorry.