One of the interesting and saddening things to watch happen is how people are being trained just to accept what the government tells them to do even when it costs them money.
I read an article about upcoming insurance changes to health insurance policies. Because of certain states' laws insurance companies are advising their members or purchasers or whatever that they will pay for the claims of teenage children but the parents won't have any rights or abilities to see what healthcare is being done and paid for on those teenage children. And the insurance companies are contacting the policy owners and advising them to have their teenage children create their own accounts with the insurance company portals so that they can maintain their privacy and interact with the insurance company as needed.
And in the same message the insurance company advises the policy holder that they will still be responsible to pay for the rest of the healthcare cost but they won't have an opportunity to know what those healthcare activities were because of the privacy rights of the child.
When my oldest son went to college they had orientation for both him and for us. In the orientation for the parents they advised us that our adult child would have their own account with the university and that it was their account and not ours. And that we as parents had no rights to go into that account and no rights to see anything about what the student was doing in their account.
After the orientation my son who was 18 at the time came to son was laughing and so excited about how he would have the account at college and that we would only when get to see what he let us see and and that wouldn't have any rights to know what he was doing while he was at school.
At that point I looked at his mother, my wife, and I smiled, and I reminded him that we had no responsibility to pay for anything that he did now he was an adult. And that if he did not open up the account to us there would be no more money spent to support him either at school or outside of school. The laughing stopped at that point. Except for me. I laughed as I explained that as the parent paying with money that I earned at a job I knew that there was no requirement for me to pay anything on this.
I reminded our son that now that he was an adult that we were very excited for him but that we had absolutely no responsibility for paying for anything for him. We talked about how we loved him and how we were paying for things including school as a gift to help launch him into adulthood and set the stage for him to grow into an upstanding member of his community.
I don't know if other parents have those kind of conversations with their kids. It was one of those moments in both his and our lives where clarity was reached and an understanding between adults was accepted.
We didn't have any more trouble out of our son concerning the account. He shared with this information allowed us to know what he was doing at school. And we supported him as much as we could. Once he started working he got the taste of income and discovered that the more he worked the more freedom and income he had. And that we had no say in what he did with the money that he earned. He is now a fine upstanding citizen in his community who pays his bills on time and works hard to make a good living.
I hope you realize the importance of work and earning rather than just having everything given to people.
