Assuming middle class parents.
Parenting has to be done as per today's day and age. Most of our parents where Dad does government job and wife is a homemaker lack serious awareness about today's education and career paths. Parenting is driven around respect and blindly trusting elders. Debate and discussion is not yet a part of parenting. What we have is authoritarian parenting. There is no concept of "personality development" in schools or parents.
And a lot of young adults who reach their 30s would say they have wasted their 20s.
And a lot of young adults who don't find govt jobs like their parents are "furkeys" or "velle" or whatever.
Of course I am speaking from privilege. it could be worse.