Ah, the Playstation generation is proving their worth.
I like your tag line.
Screwed by the "ME" generation.
Alternately, you can turn it around and say the boomer parents are being selfish by trying to punt the kids out the second they turn 18. Multi-generational families weren't out of the ordinary before recent decades.
I couldn't do it, though. I had to move back in with my parents for just one month when I was 23, in between jobs. I hated every single second of it, because we lived way out in the middle of nowhere, I had nothing to do except look for work, and they were still treating me like I was 16. I'm glad it didn't go much longer. I felt like a failure for having to do it.
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It cuts both ways. Many are allowing their parents to move in with them into their houses. Especially with rising house prices and exorbitant costs for nursing homes, and adult communities, it makes a lot of sense. Plus, they are a big help with raising the kids. Economic forces are bringing back the concept of "extended family."
"Ah, the Playstation generation is proving their worth."
Don't worry, the Gen X'rs will be here shortly to blame the ill's of the world on the boomers.
"Typically, kids who return home are working very hard. They're not lying around waiting for their parents to order pizza. They're often looking for jobs or employed in jobs that don't pay very well, so they can't live on their own. Many are going to school as well. I definitely don't subscribe to the theory that they're coddled adults."
You didn't read.
Unfortunately, when you have 30 grand in student loans and are only making $17 grand a year to start out, it is hard to live, even in a crappy apartment.
There is certainly something wrong with a person still at home if they are 30 or over though....I may have to live at home for a year after I graduate and get a job to try to save up some money and pay off loans, but I sure as heck won't do it for more than that.