The Waltons is a perfect example. Call me Pollyanna-ish but families should try to help each other. Now, if the issue is drugs, laziness, etc... then they need to go learn on their own. However, if a loved one needs some help... that is what family is supposed to be about. IMHO, if a parent says, “Sorry you lost your job but you’re grown now so good bye” then that sets a family pattern. When Mom or Dad get older and may need some help with driving or being checked on... why shouldn’t the adult child say, “Sorry you are old but I’m grown now so good bye”.
Maybe it’s different in other regions of the country, but here in the rural south you can spot Depression-era constructed houses due to them having two front doors. The two doors allowed for some degree of privacy for extended family living under the same roof.
You did what you had to do to get by, and you helped your own whenever and wherever you could. It’s no different now, when you get right down to it. I’m not going to criticize someone who had to move home due to job loss or inability to find one in the first place, and I’m not going to criticize parents who take them in. It’s better than their being on the dole or living under a bridge somewhere, isn’t it? Or turning to crime.