Most of the ‘overgrown babies’ are sons of single mothers who have turned them into people incapable of fending for themselves.
The mothers almost treat them as substitutes for the partners missing in their lives.
Njoki, an executive with a blue chip firm, has no problem living with her son Kimathi, whom she says keeps her occupied at home.
“You know, I’m single and he’s the only one close to my heart. His father left me when I was pregnant 38 years ago,” she says.
Njoki, who has invested heavily in real estate, however regrets that her son went for studies in the United Kingdom and came back without a degree.
“I sponsored him to study for a degree in business administration but he flew back home after two years because life there was unbearable,” she explains.
Njoki says she gives her son pocket money regularly and has no problem when he takes some from her purse and informs her later.
“Life is changing nowadays,” she says. “You cannot kick out your son if he is not ready to face the harsh life without a good job,” Njoki says.
The article winds up as follows: “And many of the single mothers holding on to their sons are unable to keep boyfriends or maintain relationships because men find the sons intolerable.”
Wonder what they’d say about the daughters.
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