A recent article in The Daily Mail discussed the issues of modern women and their relationships with their mothers.
… a team of U.S. social scientists recently concluded that a new period of life is emerging in which people aged between 20 and 34 are no longer adolescents, but nor can they be considered adults. The term ‘kidult’ was coined to describe this growing group of people who are technically adults, but psychologically still children. Psychologists have spent much time researching and commenting on mummy’s boys, but we don’t hear much about mummy’s girls. Yet it appears to be a growing phenomenon. At its extreme, an increasing number of women describe their mothers as their best friends. At the same time, psychologists have identified the ‘best friend mother’, the mother who wants to party with her children, wear the same clothes, cling on to their youth, as the fastest growing type of parenting.
Ignoring the term “kidult” because it’s simply too foul for me to even address, I did think that this was intriguing, yet unsurprising. I worked in the orientation office for my university for the duration of my college career and I had the opportunity to watch many mother-daughter pairs walk through the doors of my office and the process of preparing for college, a time that is traditionally marked as a coming-of-age …
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