Posted on 03/27/2017 12:10:39 PM PDT by Red Steel
Previous generations thought of themselves as adults by the time they were 22 or 23 – but for millennials, that moment comes much, much later.
Many millennials don’t act like adults until 30 – and some don’t live a ‘grown up’ lifestyle until the age of 40.
Many youngsters have delayed moving out of their parents’ home, and put off getting jobs – driven in part by the global economic downturn, but in part by the tolerance of their parents.
David Poltrack of CBS said that while the idea is ‘controversial,’ ‘Their baby boomer parents have really coddled them. They’ve made it too good for them. Why would you leave?’
Poltrack discussed the issue after a three-year research project with Nielsen, aimed at targeting advertising at younger people.
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You are correct.
Grown-up behavior was never modeled for them so they don't understand what it is.
True dat. This isn’t so much a generational problem, as it is an upbringing problem. If you haven’t figured out adulthood by your early twenties, you (1) weren’t raised right and (2) probably never will be an adult in the intellectual/emotional sense, barring some drastic life changing experience that makes the light come on.
None of them will have sufficiently saved for retirement, Social Security contributions will drop to nothing. The entire retirement system collapses, and Communism will be there to pick up the pieces.
They've already been indoctrinated that Socialism is the only "reasonable and fair" economic model.
LOL!
A lot of our more advanced Freepers started out in a USA that doesn’t exist any more. The USA during the post WWII era was full of jobs and career employment opportunities. We off shored the American dream for cheap toaster ovens and Walmart fronting for the ChiComs. Yes it is a differnet world now.
Thought you might like that!
I did my Walmart Run this morning - I like to get it out of the way right away on Monday. Most people WERE clothed appropriately, but it’s sometimes best not to make eye contact in the first place, LOL!
I have all the trappings of adulthood around me, sure as hell doesn’t mean I’m going to act like a crabby stick in the mud.
I have plenty of relatives that never made it to 70, Many that are left have let worry and stress age them horribly, so I know life is too short to let that take it over.
My Grandpa made it to his 90s. He was in WW2 and Korea, and always tried to have a good time in old age. Never known the man to have a sour look on his face.
So you will have to excuse me if I’m going to hold onto the last of my young years, joke a lot, and not just pile-drive into the grave for appearances sake.
I thought I was getting married late at 23, and my wife 21. We waited four years until we saved enough money to make it on our own. Lots of our friends got married by 20.
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Many of my h.s. classmates married soon after graduating. Some girls while still in school. They had to drop out if they got pregnant though, bad influence among the younger girls.
I graduated from HS at 17 and moved out shortly thereafter. I like to think that I was raised right; I had all the skills I needed to survive on my own at that early age thanks to my parents and grandparents.
Besides, there was a Big World out there to explore; I needed OUT of that Cow Town!
And now where do I live after all of my traipsing around?
Cow Town, USA - Population 288, LOL!
well.... I didn’t suggest it was a “good thing” just the norm though most of human history.
Arranged marriages were often initially “arranged” when children were still babies, and the wedding was only waiting until both reached puberty.
Well said.
My FRiend in Las Vegas likes to go about 4:00 a.m. Apparently there’s nobody but staff there at that time, even in LV.
Previous generations of young men thought themselves old enough at 16 to go fight for their country...
Beau stops there on his way back from night-time Raccoon hunting if he needs something and has said the same thing; totally deserted.
I had to play dodge-cart a few times with old guys in those motorized carts...but one day, that might be ME, so I was polite. ;)
I know some impressive millennials who act like adults at age 18, 21 or occasionally 25. I know others who will never get there. If you know whether they act like adults, you can predict their politics. If you know their politics, you can predict how they will act.
Liberal snowflakes just want to crawl into a safe room with Play-Doh and never grow up. Young conservatives are ready to make the world a better place, get rich doing it, and raise children while they are at it.
I’ve got a 48 year old cousin in NJ that acts like a spoiled 4-year-old throwing a tantrum any time the political winds shift in a way he doesn’t like (as in, the the 2016 election). He’s not even a millenial, he’s Gen-X. I have another idiot cousin in NY, 38 or 39, who is the same way, just with less intelligence (if that’s possible).
This is something caused by a failure to activate the ass-brain synapse. Sometimes it takes numerous attempts to activate it before it begins to work as intended. I am certain that this is the problem with most of these people - after all, in the case of my cousins, their respective grandparents were functioning and mature adults (not just our shared grandparents, but the other side also).
Bring back minimal corporal punishment at schools, and pass laws that prohibit any state’s Child Protective Services agency from taking children or charging parents for simple and proportional disciplining of their children, and the spoiling will end. Of course, look who are now parents - maybe it is too endemic of a problem to solve.
Millennials’ parents are baby boomers? Where the hell did the Gen-xers go?
How did you manage to not get drafted?
Personally, I don’t understand how lots of people make it today. Stuff costs way too much. And the rent’s too damned high!
I gotta admit...until I bought my first house at the age of 40, I was pretty much a big kid and loved it. The responsibility that came with home ownership sobered me up and grew me up pretty fast.
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