Is everything but making your kids spoiled little shits abuse these days?
Nicks kids couldn’t even fold or do their own laundry or do basic cooking.
If anything not teaching your kids to be somewhat self sufficient should be considered abuse, that’s how you get Chris Chan.
Why wouldn’t older siblings look after their younger siblings. Older siblings take care of their younger siblings all the time and have been since the caveman days.
There’s obviously a limit to it, like don’t go on a week long vacation leaving your kids at home and have the oldest one take care of the younger ones the whole time away.
I sort of agree with you. A 16 year old should be able to cook, clean and do laundry. For the vast majority of human history (99.99999% of it) 16 was the age that girls would be having their second kid & boys would be going on their second war party/ campaign.
Even 8 year olds had life or death responsibilities, if the kid did not weed, or water the plants, or feed the live stock, gather food on a daily basis, then the family had a decent chance of starving to death.
Children have also proven remarkably resilient throughout history. Before 1900, the chance of dying before age 5 was 25% to 50%. Most humans that have ever existed grew up seeing imediate family members die, they grew up with only a few pairs of clothing (if they were lucky enough to have more cloths then what they were wearing), killed and butchered animals regularly from an early age. Most people also tetered on the brink of starvation or could die any day from disease or violence. Life was simple brutish violent and short.
Even with all of that childhood trauma, people were still able to invent a huge amount of technology, found civilization and build great empires.
All of that said, we no longer live in those times and Nick is a degenerate Cokefiend for not taking care of his kids, or at the very very least teaching them the skills that they would need to look after themselvs. Nick was a spoiled trust fund babies and it looks like he raised his kids to also be clueless trust fund kids.