The answer to your question has to do with commodity fetishism, neoliberalism abstracts the alienation and exploitation inherent to capitalist modes of production away from imperialist core countries and onto the global south. The means of accomplishing these changes is violent, repressive, and nightmarish; and mostly exists to funnel treats to greedy piggys in the imperial core, such as myself. Neoliberalism doesn’t create economic opportunity, it is forced privatisation of resources. It destroys the commons and forces repressive wage labor and guts social services which help people. Examples of this abound.

ok but how does this specifically relate to the weird ideas some parents have about having a say over the dating lives of their children