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I’m with you about not being able to wait to get out of the “nest”. I see it as an embarrassment not being able to sustain one’s self at 20+ years of age. I have to agree with the author on this piece. It is definitely a generational problem. I was in my twenty’s in the 80’s and I worked as many jobs as necessary to live on my own. I was taught that was what one did in order to become an adult. I see firsthand what the adults in my generation have done and are doing to their adult offspring. The youth will never learn responsibility as long as someone else is willing to foot the bills. These parents are retarding the growth of their “kids” by not cutting the financial apron strings. The folks I see in their mid to late 20’s seem much more immature than those of us when we were their age. I believe it is directly caused by over-indulgence and parental guilt.

Exactly....I did not have a single friend that moved back in with their parents. When we turned 18 we joyfully left for college and didn’t look back. All of my friends worked in high school and summers during college. So many of this new generation seem so clueless. Many didn’t work during high school...some of that is to blame on the illegals coming in and taking jobs traditionally held by teenagers. How is an American kid gonna get a job at a McDonalds where all the workers are illegals who mostly speak Spanish. But this new generation was just so darned coddled and had parents involved in every aspect of their lives. When I grew up parents didn’t come to athletic practices...now its the norm. Kids just played amongst themselves and worked things out....now everthing is pre-programmed by the parents...its sad really.