Sociologists Find Living With Parents Leads to Alcoholism?

Sociologists Find Living With Parents Leads To Alcoholism?

Translated from Russian: http://kabmir.com/kommentarii/sociologi_zhizn_s_roditeljami_vedet_k_alkogolizmu.html

Having made many efforts to develop people’s rights, modern society is facing a problem that initially does not appear to have any obvious cause.  With every passing year, the number of people tagged as “mamma’s boys” continues to grow.  These are people who don’t want to leave their parents’ homes in order to form their own families.  It is precisely these people that Australian sociologists consider to be the reason behind the world’s demographic decline.

Their research shows that 27% of men between the ages of 20 and 34 who live with their parents have no intention of changing their lifestyle.  In the last 20 years, this number has grown by 25 percent.

Further, another group of British researchers came to the conclusion that living with parents leads to alcoholism, substance abuse and a greater likelihood of becoming a danger to society through aggression.  In contrast, those people living separately from their parents had much lower scores on such indicators.

It is completely obvious that the “mamma’s boy” syndrome is not an outcome of a difficult societal situation or an inability to provide for oneself that which is necessary for a normal life.  Rather, it is a deliberate decision.  On one hand, we can understand this choice as for thousands of years, adult individuals continued to live with their parents.  A question arises: how can one balance a person’s true desire to uphold a connection with the older generation with the need to form one’s own family?

Things turned out this way for a number of reasons.  First – modern education has absolutely no ability to develop a person according to nature’s principles.  Society imposes a consumerist mentality on a person rather than giving him an understanding of how to realize his natural role of forming a family and having children.

Another reason is the increasing level of societal hostility.  The idea of leaving one’s parents instills fear of coming face to face with an aggressive external environment.  It turns out that a person leaving his parents’ home is faced with two sources of anxiety: the fear of no longer being protected and the fear of becoming a victim of someone else’s bad intentions.

If we look at this phenomenon from a wider perspective, we will see it as somewhat of a tactic aiming at the protection of society.  Albeit subconsciously, staying at home with the parents may be a way of maintaining increasingly fragile societal ties. One of the most basic human needs is the desire to feel himself as part of a larger society providing him with wellbeing and material comfort.  Against the backdrop of a way of life that is further distanced from what’s considered traditional, relationships between parents and their children is the only viable alternative from the complete exclusion and individualism that makes up the external world.

Modern society needs to restore the natural relationships between generations.  The formation of a young family should not mean the absence of parental care.  On their end, older generations should leave aside their egoistic ambitions in relation to their children and those they chose as their spouses.  This way, we will create better conditions for young people to live in harmony with older generations while also wanting to form a family and having children.

Translated by Veronica Mengana

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