AFAIK the US is wealthier than Italy, so, if anything, I’d expect American adults to be more willing to buy cars to their children than Italian adults are. Am I missing something? (Probably, given that I’ve never been to the US; but what, exactly?)
Maybe cars cost more here. Maybe insurance costs more.
Wouldn’t that make it less likely for teenagers to buy their own cars, rather than more?
(Maybe I wasn’t clear. What I meant by “overwhelming exception” in the great^n-grandparent is that I’d guess that most of the teenagers who drive cars already are the ones who were bought cars by their parents. Were you implying that in the US until now there have been a large fraction of teenagers who buy their own cars?)
AFAIK the US is wealthier than Italy, so, if anything, I’d expect American adults to be more willing to buy cars to their children than Italian adults are. Am I missing something? (Probably, given that I’ve never been to the US; but what, exactly?)
Maybe cars cost more here. Maybe insurance costs more. Maybe the culture frowns on scooters as replacements. Maybe a million things.
Wouldn’t that make it less likely for teenagers to buy their own cars, rather than more?
(Maybe I wasn’t clear. What I meant by “overwhelming exception” in the great^n-grandparent is that I’d guess that most of the teenagers who drive cars already are the ones who were bought cars by their parents. Were you implying that in the US until now there have been a large fraction of teenagers who buy their own cars?)
Yes. As far as I can tell, decades ago it was a lot more common for teenagers to buy cars, assisted by part-time jobs.