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[quote=Anonymous]There is a growing culture of infantilizing grown adults. Some of it is finance based because most fresh grads are straddled with debt, doesn’t have good income and parents doesn’t want an extra liability for their snowflakes or themselves. Also weddings are expensive and parents doesn’t want to pay or want kids to take loans.

Some is based in midlife crisis parents own unfulfilled wishes which they want their kids to fulfill by having tons of sex with lots of people, traveling the globe, becoming successful and living it up. They genuinely think their adult kids aren’t capable of making their own decisions.

You won’t see many parents accepting their young adults wish to marry unless parents are extremely religious.

Middle ground should be not encouraging or discouraging but being accepting and supporting if two young adults with jobs and degrees want to commit. Recommend a simple wedding and for saving six month emergency fund before tying the knot and to use family planning until they get their grad or professional degrees and get a bit more settled.

If they don’t want to marry early, let them wait. Basically, just treat them as adults because infantilizing them doesn’t change the reality that they are and entitled to make their own decisions.[/quote]

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