Chapter 11--Bank of Mum and Dad

The Sunday Times recently reported an article on grown up children who have started working and earning a salary but yet are still taking allowance from their parents. In response, quite a few readers stated that it is an unhealthy trend for it breeds increased dependency among the younger generations.First and foremost, I think that this group of "children" must be quite thick skin to began with or else I could not think of a much better reason to explain this phenomemon. I mean, don't you feel embarrassed if you have already started work and are already earning money for yourself which could be in amount even higher than what your parents earn and yet are still taking money from them? However what really made my made my eyes roll is the reason given by some of these youngster--that they do not have enough money to support their "lavished and luxurious" lifestyle. Hey come on people, if you realized that you do not have the capabilities to maintain your lifestyle, then you should be the one who should rethink and reorganize your spending habit and not just merely depend on your old folks for the extra cash. On the other hand, parents themselves must also realized that it isn't a one way traffic and that they should also discourage their children from taking money from them if the reason given is just to fulfill their material's desire.
I realized that children in this era often have difficulty placing their priorities in life and that I myself is not excluded too. Often, in this "efficient" society where speed is of upmost important, we youngster usually do not have the patient and virtue of saving up for things that we want because we tend to want these things immediately and are therefore not willing to wait for it. So what do we do? Of course one of the quickest way is to turn to our most reliable "ATM" in this world which are our mum and dad respectively depending on whom you are closer to lah. In the long term, we will subconsciously turn to our parents whenever we have finanical difficulty and it will indeed be an uphill task for some of us to break this habit when we are older. However, though difficult it is for some of us, we must still overcome the habit if we wanted to be a true adult who is supposed to be independent of their parents. I have known of some friends who although are already in their 20s were still taking money from their parents to pay for their mobile phone bills or to to buy items they want. I feel sorry for them that they did not possess even the tiniest bit of self-responsibilities and I also fear for them that they will eventually suffer when they are older. But alas! what can we do? As a chinese saying goes "one who is willing to beat and one who is willing to take the beating" What can we as outsiders to interfere if the parents themselves are willing to "pamper" their children with money?

Haiz, in this modern society, how much is the value of dependency worth?