Idk. I staying at hostel/ dorm since I'm 13. I going home / my parents often pay me a visit during weekend until i'm 17. When i start attending college, i going home once a month or once in two months.(i occasionally miss my mother and father)
It the culture and how close someone with their family i think. Most people in my country (asia) often visit their parents out from holiday season even they already married and got their own family. We got close relationship with our families. Like it one of responsible towards our parents.
i can agree however to me leaving home and basically never going back was a godsend mainly because once i left my MONEY was MY MONEY and not the RENT money anymore even though my step father had a pretty good job I was the one paying ALL of our house hold bills at 13 years old i moved out at 15 and have basically been on my own since then . also something to keep in mind my EX wife is Japanese and her family basically DUMPED her off in private school with a dorm system that ran from K all the way through University and in total she told me that her Mother came to see her once a year and her father 4 times a year for a REALLY fast visit and to see if she needed any MONEY . however in the end yes it completely boils down to if you have a GOOD RELATIONSHIP with family mine is horrible which is why i never visit my parents EVER no point

Is it normal for me that i got this urge to slap or shouting at this girl? I know it only a story but come on...she so naive and dumb. She really think that her boyfriend will happily accept her baby after she given birth to it. She 18 but act like child with all unrealistic dream of her. Her decision to keep the baby is good, to be the best mother bla,bla all of that maternal feeling. She can spend time reading all the books about pregnancy, prepare baby crib but doesn't plan the futures. It good that she come from financially good family.
I irritated at the part she decide to hide her pregnancy and give birth alone. It not like a child is something you can test or trial first. I don't know what actually she thinking about her and unborn child future. What if something bad happen during birth. She blame herself for being pregnant and doesn't want to burden her boyfriend as she the one who suggest to has unprotected sex. It's not like you just can get pregnant alone. When she crying because of loneliness, it's her own mistake to isolate herself and she act like a victim.
And how her parents still clueless about her pregnancy. 7 month, and they never visited their daughter that suddenly wanted to life alone.