[TexasFreeper2009]

I disagree, it was the norm throughout most of history (and still is in many parts of the world) for multiple generations of a family to live in one home.

I think kids should stay at home until they marry.

[Lopeover]

I agree with you! The family took care of each other, in the old days. These days Gov’t pays for I home care givers from SEIU. Grandparents were there to help with children. This article is fish wrapper!

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

If they married at 20, 21, or 22 I would agree. But the average first marriage is now at age 28 and rising.

[Vigilanteman]

Every situation is different. We loved having our adult daughter at home with us. She helped with the housework, bought groceries sometimes and even shared her NetFlix picks with us.

One night, when she had a night shift and got home late, Dad was waiting up for her. She scolded me and reminded me she was an adult now. I just told her my "Dad" wiring couldn't adapt to that.

We were genuinely sorry when she got a job out of state and moved away. Of course, she got married shortly thereafter and makes it back the most regularly of any of our kids to visit. Doesn't hurt that she has a nice husband who helps me with physically demanding outdoor projects and a cute little granddaughter too. But we never regretted her time at home.

[Jonty30]

Or at least until they become financially secure. There is no benefit to holding onto a student loan any longer than you have to.

[9YearLurker]

Of course, many don’t marry until their 50’s, if at all, these days.

But I actually agree with you. It is not the living arrangement itself that is so wrong, but the infantilization of the next generation that is gross and problematic.

[SamAdams76]

You are referring to a different world and different way of life.

There was no welfare or social security net so non-working elderly had to rely on their children to care for them in old age.

Men would go off to work and women would stay in the home and cook and clean. There was no option to sit on the couch and watch television or play video games all day while working "part-time" at the local fast food joint. Men had to go out and earn real money and women had to do endless chores around the house, care for the elderly parents and grandparents while raising the children. People got married much younger. Houses and apartments were much smaller those days.

In those days, you had the world on your shoulder by the time you were 18. There was no such thing as extended adolescence and slackers and shiftless layabouts would not be tolerated.

[bgill]

There is nothing wrong with living with your parents and contributing. There is everything wrong with those who are slugs with no future mooching off their parents.