Parenting in the 21st century

I WANT independence and my own car so i can drive myself to the parties. I hate that the few times i ask my parents for permission and for a ride they say no. What do they want from ME? Forcing me to mature at a very young age in order to do THEIR job wasn't enough? What else do they want? I have had good grades since preschool; never really ask them for permission to parties unless they were from really close friends, which are few.


So, I ask you people: "What is the secret to get their approval, their permission? How come there are many young adults that are forced to live like they're little children, always looking for a tiny bit of freedom that they'll never get. Why have we become so dependent of our parents? In the past generations, people our age were independent, married and working to create the big happy family that they dreamed of. Nowadays you see our generation partying, drinking, and getting married, but not because they want to, but because they have to. That's the reason why the divorce rate has increased. They get married because they got pregnant and they are told that’s the right thing to do, but a month later they realize that they don't love each other, or that it’s too much for them.

Parents are not preparing their children for life; they aren’t teaching them what’s out there in the world. And why is that; because they spend most of their time working to make money. Money for what I ask? Do they think money can buy happiness, because if it does then many people I know, have taught me wrong. If money could buy happiness we wouldn’t see so many rich kids, bullying at schools, breaking the law in order to get a little bit of attention from their parents. Because that’s all they want: “the attention that they never got from their parents when they were little”. Most parents may justify themselves by saying that they were working to give their families a better life. But that’s no excuse!! They should have been there for them at least in their first twelve years that is when they acquire their way of thinking and when they learn the value of life. Where were their parents when they needed to talk to them: possibly, at work. Who would have imagined that we would have to make an appointment to see our parents, because they only had time for their work? How far has this gone? And how far will it keep going?