I don’t agree with the “Kids are spoiled” take.
For millions of years, it has been the norm in human society for many generations to live together.
The young adults take care of the old, the old take care of - and teach - the children of the young adults.
This is a norm, and the last 40 years or so are an anomoly. A function of wealth, really. But Obama has redistributed that.
30 year olds are not children...they are not really even young adults. My husband and I were laughing about that the other day. We were talking about our sons and calling them *boys*. The youngest is now 30. They are all men (all married and living on their own and supporting themselves).
It seriously depends on what these people who live with their parents are doing. Are they making any attempt to take care of themselves? Are they sitting around playing video games? Are they helping out? I do think we do a huge disservice when we give them everything an adult gets when they are 16 (sex, cars, big kid toys) but don’t shove them out into the cold cruel world to let them also get the hard knocks that adults take.
So, you may disagree with me, and that’s fine, I can take it, it’s what FR is all about (I don’t ascribe to the—”If you disagree with me you are a liberal or an idiot or a troll!” mentality that so many here seem to). And there is some merit in what you say. But there are also a lot of ungrown up *kids* who would be living on you and me if Mom and/or Dad were not taking care of them.