The issue here is that the adults felt the need, the competitive need, to get the eggs FOR their children. In another time, the adults would have felt content to let the children get their own eggs.
I was thinking this morning that the parents of the children today, particularly the biologically adult children in our universities, were themselves the children of hippies. They grew up in emotionally unstable homes, and seem to have reacted by overparenting their own children.
It does seem to me too that in a world where childhood is made so important that many parents want to extend their own by living vicariously through their children.
Let them go, people. You are the cannon, they are the cannon shot, life is the charge.
Never do for anyone something they can and should do for themselves. This principle starts in the earliest infancy.
Conservatism is nothing more or less than common sense. The fear and confusion of this world make it seem that compassion is offering help, but most of the time the only person helped is the codependent, emotionally unwell person offering it.