Children are leeches off their parents when they reach adulthood and still can't support themselves. If you're 35 years old and still living in your parent's basement, you're a leech. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
MAW is right. Again, the goal of childhood is NOT having the most fun possible, but to get ready for real life and adulthood. If kids after finishing school can not get on their on feet and live on their own, then their parents failed as parents... Now having a quarter life crisis is mostly the parents' fault, after all they are the ones who didn't raise the kid correctly...
Woops. Anywho. You are claiming that a slave that chooses to be enslaved is supporting himself. That is the only delusion around here. That is not independence.