To me, the driving or not driving is something that comes back to the original question. And probably relates more to female children than male. But maybe not.
For so many years, I feel that there were all these social cues of how women should behave.
Women aren’t good at math, women should have women specific careers, teaching or nursing for example. My parents talked about having a good career for a woman. Not every parent was this way, that I know, but my parents talked about a career that you could transition to part time when you had children. Women weren’t good drivers. Men should make the decisions about money and spending. Blue chores, pink chores.
I very intentionally tried to break those conventions for my daughter. And tried to also instill them in my son.
So I’m proud of my engineer daughter, and my engineer daughter in law. Who are working in places their careers took them. I don’t know where the future will lead them. But they are leading it.
I guess this has migrated from the original question. My opinion is that there are many reasons why children live close to their parents. But maybe the thought that they can be mobile if they want contributes to the greater mobility our children have over previous generations.