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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I think one thing this article fails to mention is the selfish, superficial nature of the current generation, with their overly inflated sense of entitlement - especially the girls. Have you talked to any twentysomethings lately? Their brains are mush from too much television, too much computers and video games. What happened to being a kid? Playing sports, trying to form a band, having a paper route? Instead they sit in front of the telly hours on end.
My son is in exactly the same position that you were in at 23. He has just graduated, completed an internship in London, and we sold the house that he was living in while in school. Unfortunately, the house was very nice and he can't even hope to support himself in the style to which he has become accustomed. To top it off, we are building a house and living in a temporary rental, a 30 year old double wide. He has no where to sleep if he comes home, except a pull out couch!
1. Require they pay room and board 2. Require that they have chores to help 3. Set a curfew 4. Treat them like they are 16
This is a great learning thread!
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Only if you want to be dishonest since that article says "after fours years of college". How long should you mooch off your family?