No, it is not the responsibility of parents to force things on their children. Children are not property to be owned and controlled by their parents against the children's will. That we've wound up believing this is honestly embarrassing.
The reason we make parents responsible for their children until a certain age is because we as a collective have judged them incapable of doing so for themselves. I don't know how long it has been for you, but for me it has not been so long that I do not remember being incapable of making big life decisions.
