BABIEMAMA?

I recently saw a tweet in which the author referred to another woman as a babiemama. I thought, "How profoundly descriptive." There are many people on Twitter who seem to be babies with babies. 

Today I saw a modern family in my neighborhood. The apparent 20-something father of three was riding a kick scooter on the sidewalk behind his charges, ages 6 to 2. The two older children were riding the same scooter model as their guardian in smaller sizes. The youngest was on a tiny tricycle and was wearing a huge helmet, which gave him the appearance of a bobble head. The guardian was absorbed in mastering his scooter while the kids were scattered in front of him occupying the entire sidewalk of a busy commercial district. The guardian wore the same clothes in the same colors as his charges, but larger. From the look on the adult's face, he was enjoying the outing more than his charges, who each seemed bored and disengaged from the rest of his group. 

It has been generally observed that the last two generations of American suburban children have been pampered and overprotected by permissive adults. It has also been generally observed that this has not been working out very well for society. Countless videos of whining and winging young adults have been posted on line. Sometimes these videos are posted by the whiners themselves with no apparent clue about how infantile they are. Some actually seem proud of their vapid narcissism.

These semi-adults are the eager supporters of sociopaths and psychopaths in media who couch themselves as victims of law enforcement or social repercussions for breaking general rules of responsible adult behavior. After all, they have been raised to believe that anyone with authority or self-confidence who dares say "No!" is akin to Hitler.

And whom do these semi-adults hate? Enforcers of social etiquette. Speakers of honest opinion. Speakers of scientific evidence. Common-sense observers of life. They project their own immature insecurity on these objects of derision by calling them "haters" and worse. 

I suppose the traditional terms "mother" and "father" will soon be labelled "White supremacist", since 75% of Black births in the U.S. are born of single women, many of them still young. 25% of non-Black children are now born of single mothers, many of them also young.  Babiemamas and babiepapis will abound. I have to wonder if the offspring of these parents will be any better educated and socialized than their parents? I am afraid that is quite unlikely.