Was reading a Slate article by a woman who thought she could pass on what she learned as a teenager navigating romances to her daughter. Turns out, according to the woman, her daughter needed no teaching; she found the waters very different given social media but handled them just fine.
Then there's this NYTimes piece entitled Children Are Grown, But Parenting Doesn't Stop.
I like to bridge opposites, so I suggest that in different times/societies people develop different faculties at different rates. Perhaps today's society provides more models of how to develop emotionally for people to learn from while simultaneously making it more complicated to maneuver through society. Compared to my youth individual development is more emphasized and more important, while discussion of social forces is more restricted to race and gender.
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