IBLP also encouraged parents to clip their children’s wings. They taught that children should stay with their parents until marriage, and that instead of going away to college, children should stay home and pick up other safer trades for work. They encouraged fathers to be self-employed, to build up family businesses and have their boys work for them. It was a clear way of keeping full-grown, adult offspring locked into the role of dependent children.
Interesting dichotomy between the parentification of children AND infantilization of the adult children. Keep the adult children dependent on the parents but have the children raising the younger siblings.
