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1 posted on 08/02/2005 8:54:55 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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Ah, the Playstation generation is proving their worth.


2 posted on 08/02/2005 8:57:19 AM PDT by Ashamed Canadian (America - please invade us now!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

I told my wife - the best thing to get an 18 year old for his birthday is suitcases.


5 posted on 08/02/2005 9:00:52 AM PDT by Trampled by Lambs (This Tagline is on hiatus as I think of a new one.)
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Spoiled brats who have been told the world revovles around them then go out in real world and find out it doesnt so they go crawl back to the people who think it does


7 posted on 08/02/2005 9:02:20 AM PDT by skaterboy (I cry for you)
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The trouble is, many parents would like independence from their kids.

But they're too wimpy to declare it. Cry me a river.

9 posted on 08/02/2005 9:02:27 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Standing athwart history, shouting, "Turn those lights off! You think electricity grows on trees?")
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Why move out when you can enjoy everything that Mom and Dad have worked for 30 years to build? Since our culture has removed the notion of work = stuff, it is no wonder that we have 18 million whiners who feel entitled to Mom and Dad's continued support.

BTW, I am 31, a married mother of three with my own home. Moved out at 18. Have not looked back, save Sunday dinners. No, I do no dump my kids off with my mom -- something else that I see my generation doing....mom means babysitter.


10 posted on 08/02/2005 9:02:41 AM PDT by andie74 ("No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent." -- John Jay)
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I left at 18 so are mine.

I do agree that housing costs are BS and a unduly harsh wake-up call for young people. The price of houses in places like Denver, North Dallas, and Austin are a crock and I will LMAO when they implode in the near future.


11 posted on 08/02/2005 9:02:54 AM PDT by One Proud Dad
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Sounds like the Dr in last paragraph didnt read the rest of the article...lol


13 posted on 08/02/2005 9:04:53 AM PDT by skaterboy (I cry for you)
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my degree in anthrpologicalwomensstudiespadagonianbasketweaving (for non-math majors) is worthless!


16 posted on 08/02/2005 9:07:04 AM PDT by wildcatf4f3 (whats wrong with a draft?)
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From the article: "a tight job market"

Unemployment has been below 6% for YEARS now.

17 posted on 08/02/2005 9:07:28 AM PDT by ChadGore (VISUALIZE 62,041,268 Bush fans.)
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What do you want to bet this happens more with liberal parents than conservative parents.


18 posted on 08/02/2005 9:07:39 AM PDT by TASMANIANRED (Democrats haven't had a new idea since Karl Marx.)
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Marge: "Homer, remember what you promised the kids?"

Homer: "Oh, yea. Kids, when you're 18, you're outta here."

(paraphased)


19 posted on 08/02/2005 9:08:02 AM PDT by Lord Basil (Hate isn't a family value; it's a liberal one.)
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Pollon has four children, three of whom came home to live with her after their college graduations. One stayed for a year. "I thought, 'How convenient.' He's an adult who drives, and I still had a daughter in elementary school, so he could help drive her. I also thought it was not unreasonable to ask him to occasionally baby-sit. He was shocked. It was out of the question, he said. It would interfere with his social life. He refused. And I was shocked."

This paragraph speaks volumes about what sort of person her son is.
22 posted on 08/02/2005 9:10:48 AM PDT by somniferum
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Not spoiled

Jeffrey Jensen Arnett, a professor at the University of Maryland in College Park and author of "Emerging Adulthood: The Winding Road From the Late Teens Through the Twenties," says his studies of the generation have shown that they are "not spoiled and self-indulgent.

BULL FEATHERS! Mommy and Daddy has given them everything and expected nothing in return. Now they can't deal with real life.


26 posted on 08/02/2005 9:15:35 AM PDT by Lowell (The voice from beyond the edge!)
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ping


36 posted on 08/02/2005 9:26:40 AM PDT by Cannoneer No. 4 (Kandahar Airfield -- “We’re not on the edge of the world, but we can see it from here")
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"Social scientists have blamed this "boomerang" syndrome on a variety of economic factors: a tight job market, low salaries for entry-level jobs and the high cost of rent and large student-loan "

How about the years of education of learning meaningless crap? The biggest waste of time is teaching children and young adults how to write like novelists when they really need to just learn to write to communicate. They have no idea how to use the tools around them to create business.
40 posted on 08/02/2005 9:30:40 AM PDT by Porterville (Don't make me go Bushi on your a$$)
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I see this happening to a bunch of friends, and even my in-laws. The screw-ups come crawling back and are showered with "poor babies" and "no one understands you" and the successful children are forgotten.

My MIL has two of three adult children still living with her(in their 30's/40's!). Both are major screw-ups (one is a single mom of twins who doesn't know who the father is and one is in and out of the house of correction for DUI's and other assorted crimes).

The successful child (my DH) has been married for 23 years, holds an excellent job and raises his children right. Do you think grandma has time for her successful son or grandchildren? She's too busy making excuses and cleaning up messes, both real and emotional.

We're raising our children to understand that a HEALTHY family disintegrates naturally. Kids move out and up and parents enjoy their golden years as a married couple with occasional visits from kids and hopefully grandchildren.

When did this become so bizarre?


41 posted on 08/02/2005 9:32:00 AM PDT by WIladyconservative (Set up a monthly donation to FR - why? because it's The Right Thing to Do!)
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"where 25 percent of Americans between 18 and 34 now live with parents"

I have a hard time believing those numbers. I know plenty of people with kids that age and none of them live with their parents. My kids are 26 & 28 and they have been on their own since 18 years old.


43 posted on 08/02/2005 9:33:41 AM PDT by caver (Yes, I did crawl out of a hole in the ground.)
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I think rent control is part of the problem. If the local government sets a rate of $1100.00/month for a 2 bdrm apartment and nobody making more than $2100.00(with no children) can live there, what does that leave a single person making $2200.00/month? They can't qualify for an apartment at the rent control rate, much less the apartments not under rent control which will always be nicer and higher. We don't have places for young singles to live. At least not in No. Virginia.


46 posted on 08/02/2005 9:36:27 AM PDT by Sweet Hour of Prayer
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No sympathy from me for these leeches or their enablers (parents). I left home as a 16 year old high school drop-out and have worked my everlovin' butt off since. These parents should be horsewhipped.


49 posted on 08/02/2005 9:39:56 AM PDT by ExpatGator (Progressivism: A polyp on the colon politic.)
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Social scientists have blamed this "boomerang" syndrome on a variety of economic factors: a tight job market, low salaries for entry-level jobs and the high cost of rent and large student-loan debts

I think this is largely attributable to the change in college education -- both how many people get it, and what it consists of. It used to be that students were proud and grateful to be accepted at any college. Now the colleges are selling themselves like rock groups, and are grateful when students accept an offer of admission. This is largely due to the explosion of federal and state funding programs which both enable unqualified and/or uncommitted students to go to college, and removed any incentive for colleges to restrict entry to those whose parents are able and willing to pay (with the willingness part often tied to previous academic accomplishment), and to those whose accomplishments and attitude suggest that scholarships extended to them out of the college's own funds, will be more than repaid in one way or another. The modern outlook of college administrations is "we've got to sell ourselves to all these silly kids who've got all that free (to us) money attached to them, to maintain jobs for ourselves and our friends and colleagues, and fund our pet research pursuits." For-credit courses in movie-watching, full-blown majors in nonsense like "queer studies", and an absolute refusal to exercise any control whatsoever over students' lives, are the predictable result of this outlook.

At least half of the traditional age students currently in college don't belong there, and if they're learning anything at all that will increase their employability, they're learning it much more slowly and expensively than they would if they were learning it on the job. The primary purpose of college has shifted from preparing academically strong and committed young adults for specific careers, to a 4-year party-filled postponement of adult responsibilities. And most "students" end up with a pile of student loans for an education that did nothing to increase their earning power, but did raise the financial bar for their independence. Many could have supported themselves if they'd gone to work straight out of high school, but with big monthly student loans payments, and a resume and self-image that screams "over-qualified or at least thinks s/he is" for any job that they're actually qualified for, means many really can't support themselves (at least not while living in reasonably safe neighborhood, which is a line that their financially and physically secure parents usually aren't eager to have them cross).

61 posted on 08/02/2005 9:56:18 AM PDT by GovernmentShrinker
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