Parents' unwillingness to impose boundaries 'spawned a generation of infantilised millennials'

Parents not enforcing boundaries and being unwilling to chastise children has led to a generation of'infantilised millennials', according to a sociology professor. In his book, Why Borders Matter, Frank Furedi, emeritus professor of sociology at Kent University, says a lack of clear boundaries has created a childlike generation. Not chastising children or using moral-based judgements'deprives them of a natural process' of fighting against parental rules and boundaries, says Furedi. He says children develop by reacting against boundaries given to them by parents and society, and over three or four generations those parameters have weakened. This has led to millennials in their twenties acting the way they did in their teenage years and refusing to embrace adulthood, he explained in his book.