Westerner here (US-Am). This is not ubiquitous, but I was never prompted to even chop vegetables, let alone actually cook meals as a kid. I learned how to cook in my early 20s during quarantine due to wanting food that I like that fits my dietary restrictions, and because I was unemployed for a couple years and cooking your own meals is generally much less expensive.

Now, while I don't "enjoy" cooking — sometimes it's actually quite stressful, though much less now than when I started; following recipe instructions initially led to burned onions or garlic, over- or under-seasoned food, concern over the caramelizing taking thrice as long as the recipe said it would, etc. — I rarely dislike my own food, since I generally know how I'm going to like it. Plus, my family enjoys it, which is almost as nice as me enjoying it, lmao.

I do wish that I'd been taught how to cook when I was younger, but tbh my dad very rarely cooked — he wasn't taught how — and my mom's cooking was a lot of stereotypical white Midwestern-type tuna casseroles, spaghetti with canned marinara, etc. We had a lot of frozen microwave meals.