Gone are the days when young people's decision are under too much control of their parents, ranging from whether to hang out on Sunday to choices of spouse and career. Faced with any dilemma, they were accustomed to turning to their parents for help without profound thoughts. While in this day and age, due to a wide range of social progression, young people are becoming increasingly independent from their nuclear family. Chances are that they do not even tell them anything about it.
To begin with, today's people are no longer suffering from starving and material deprivation, as a result of which, everyone, especially young people, tend to pursue individualized values , including physicological physiological well-being with free love, spiritual abundance with a wide range of knowledge in humanities, social science, excitement lifestyle as an entrepreneurenterprenuer and sence sense of responsibility as a primary school teacher. These were rarely taken into account in the past society, in which the majority are keep fighting for full stomachs and safe houses. As a consequence, it is almost impossible that an adult could truly understand the pursuit of hisher child, let alone the probablity probability of having a similar goal as the child. Under this circumstance, decisions made by parents, more often than not, are less appropriate considering the personalized dream of every young man .
Further, with cutting-edge technology transforming people's lifestyle, there are more and more choices and challenges which the elderly may find hard to keep up with. There are increasing number of brand-new occupations for young people to choose from, amoung among which more are accepted by the majority in this progressive society. Take my 24-years-old brother for example--after graduating from railway engineering school, he made his own desicision decision to become a dilivery delivery man of taking-out food. His parents did not understand him until they, under the conduction of my brother, gained a knowledge of this fast developing industry. It is evident that technology are enriching people's choice these days.
Most importantly, young people are able to gain knowledge and experience from variety channels in modern society , which is distinct from the only way in the past: through impartment from the elderly. You can search for anything you want just by typing on the keyboard and moving the mouse--not only the statements on the book, but also the practical experience from thousands of people all over the world. If a freshman of college wants to choose hisher major, heshe can browse the web to know about feelings of people with similar personality with himher working for any length of time and in every field, which is clearly more valid and useful than what hisher parent say--they may hear that only from a taxi driver three years ago.
The development these years is impacting every aspect of people's lifelives, so as the decision process of young people. For the reasons above, it is not surprising that their decisions are getting rid of the control of parents, as a consequence of the material abundance, technology development and ample sourse source of information.