Or because the really important things have to be learned by doing to take.
Tangential gripe: I hate hearing people talk about how people shouldn’t do X before age Y because they “don’t know how to handle it yet”, when not being allowed to try it and fail is the reason they can’t handle it, and the reason they will continue to be unable to handle it until well past age Y. If something must be learned through experience, you can’t postpone experience until after you’ve learned it. It doesn’t work.
Not sure about teens, but in my experience most adults don’t understand squat about raising children until they have a couple of their own.
Maybe that’s in part because they don’t plan and discuss it through their teenage years.
Or because the really important things have to be learned by doing to take.
Tangential gripe: I hate hearing people talk about how people shouldn’t do X before age Y because they “don’t know how to handle it yet”, when not being allowed to try it and fail is the reason they can’t handle it, and the reason they will continue to be unable to handle it until well past age Y. If something must be learned through experience, you can’t postpone experience until after you’ve learned it. It doesn’t work.
X is usually sex, but insert whatever.
Depends on how many siblings and cousins you have.