Life, the Obstacle Course

The Sorrows of Japanese Parents: Needing to Save Up Five Million JPY for Their Daughter Who Lives Inside a Cocoon

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Trending N-O-W, from the International headlines from the papers here, translated…

Inside Japan, there are over half a million “cocooners”, they’d locked themselves inside their homes, refused to go out, to find work, or establish contact with the outside world, and just lived off of their parents, or lived off of government assistance, and, as these “cocooners” slowly marched into their midlife years, their parents began worrying, that they would need to save up more money, so their children will NEVER have to “go outside”.

Based off of the Japanese media reports “PRESIDENT”, the financial specialist who helped parents plan out the finances for their young, Yabusei mentioned, that recently, there was a couple in their sixties, who’d consulted her, that they have a thirty-eight-year-old son living at home, who’d not worked for the past eight years, and rarely heads out the house.  They went to her, worried, “If we save up the money, so our son wouldn’t have to work at all, then, we’d hoped to save up at least ¥20 million for him.  How do we plan out our finances before we die?

what they looked like, photo from online…

This couple told, that when their son was thirty years old, he’d had difficulties from work, and ever since he’d been, a “cocooner”, other than when he’d needed to go to the 24-hour convenience shops, or to the bookstores, he’d usually stayed at home, in his own room, and logged online, and ate whatever his 63-year-old mother had cooked for him.

A short while ago, they’d tallied up their assets, and found, that they’d needed to live off their savings of ¥27 million, and the retirement pensions of about ¥900,000 in retirement funds, to take care of both of them, as well as their thirty-eight-year-old son’s life as he grew older.  But what troubled them was, based off of how much they needed to spend right now, the money would be, long gone before they died, let alone, having anything left over for their own son.

here’s another “sighting” of one, photo from online still…

Yabusei helped the elderly couple found a way, and discovered, that the reason why the couple didn’t have enough money left at the end of the month because they’d given whatever their son asked of them to him.  In order to help their son stay in shape without having to exercise, the parents cooked the meals for him daily, and, in order for him to be able to go to the grocery stores, the bookstores easier, they’d prepared for him, a car too, what’s more was, in order to make their son not get bored or lonely, they’d, kept a dog for him too.  Yabusei said, that all the money these parents spent for the sake of their son, seemingly, it’s for his benefit, but, it’d prevented their son from becoming independent from them.

Based off of the measures taken by the Japanese Department of Labor, there are currently, over half a million in population between ages of 15 to 39 who are living as “cocooners”, and as this group of people enters into midlife, they’d not have retirement pensions, no savings either, and needed to live off of their parents’ money, and social welfare too.  Yabusei stated, that if the parents of cocooning children’s best interests in mind, they should learn to let go sooner, instead of keep giving to them, so they will, find a way to support themselves even AFTER their parents are gone.

So, this is still an enabling relationship, because the parents felt compelled, to provide for their young, allowing their children to NOT work, and still lived on easily and well, that, is why these blood SUCKERS are sucking their parents dry, because the parents don’t realize, that what they’re doing, providing food, shelter, transportation, even entertainment for their own young, is actually hurting them, instead of helping them stand on their own two feet, and the parents still tried to get their financial planner to come up with ways, so their grown SON can keep on living an easy life after they’re dead!  And, if this is not spoiling your own young BEYOND rotten, I really don’t know what is!!!

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