It's natural for parents to help their children. They help when kids take an entrance exam, when they hunt for jobs, so there is nothing wrong with helping their children get a good marriage.
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Michiko Saito, 64, who established Office An, a marriage agency in Sapporo, where parents come to find potential partners for their unmarried children in their 30s and 40s. (AFP-Jiji)
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Schoolboyerror
It's also natural for parents to wipe their children's backsides for a while, but one expects the children to grow out it. Fat chance in this country, with social skills a thing of the past and noses buried in keitais, manga and Gundam / Disney catalogues.
I guess she has to say what she said - her business depends on the lack of maturity of modern Japanese "adults".
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medievaltimes
If the 40 year old child wants to get married maybe HE/SHE should be the one going to the agency, not the parent.
If Japanese parents would teach their children maturity, responsibility, social skills, sex education and independence it wouldn't be an issue.
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rurika
by 'helping', she means 'interfering'
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salchicha
What's going to happen to all these "adults" who are unable to take care of themselves when their mollycoddling parents have passed away? Will it be left to the government to distribute leaflets instructing people who to blow their own noses? How will they know when to cross the road if there's no-one to tell them? Surely the freeters will all starve to death, won't they?
If they got rid of the pointless entrance exams, and focussed on teaching relevant things, like, oh, I don't know, history, geography, science, social studies, perhaps these "adults" would be able to look after themselves? I only went to school for 7 hours a day, 5 days a week (I know! The horror!! But so does everyone in most countries around the world...I guess...) and my parents were just parents, not body-guard-alarm-clock-matchmaking-cooking-cleaning-Borg, and I know that I'm 1000 times better socially adjusted than almost every Japanese I've met. (possible exaggeration...merely used for effect!)
OH! WON'T SOMEONE PLEASE THINK OF THE FREETERS? ;-P
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