You've never lived on a dirt rock in the middle of a freezing ocean which is in turn in the middle of nowhere, was (until recently) beset with dragons, before the discovery of penicillin and the invention of the flushing toilet.

We've all got our cruk.

And insanely protective parents aren't exclusive to anytime. It's just how they smother you with sheer force of personality that changes.

Sounds like it all got very high tech.