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New umbilical cords tie young adults to parents
While society relentlessly pulled families apart during the past century, new technologies are binding us together again in this one. The fact is, today — through Internet technology and cheap wireless communications — our kids never really leave home. "Cell phones, instant messages, digital cameras — maintain tight bonds between college students and their parents even if they are far, far away from each other. And that's a good thing — or is it? Alcestis Oberg and Laura Vanderkam for USA Today give us two sharply contrasting views. The positive side : Some sociologists are concerned that the lack of face-to-face contact in an Internet society might disrupt Americans' social patterns, and make us emotional cripples. But in family life, these experts are mistaken. Colleges and jobs in distant places used to rip families physically apart, making face-to-face communication impossible. As a result, parents and children felt isolated and rootless. Now the 21st century's technologies are removing those feelings of isolation. The flip side: Students fells smothered by parents who have hyper-parented them since birth and aren't about to stop just because their child is, technically, a grown-up. Cell phones and instant messaging have only made it worse, making it easier to hold on". |
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