[mainestategop]

Thank Ted kennedy and Open immigration for that one.

[SamAdams76]

It's pretty staggering that a third of Americans 24-34 still live with their parents.

When I came of age, living with your parents was a stigma. Girls wouldn't date you, prospective employers wouldn't take you seriously and your friends would whisper behind your back that you are a loser.

Consequently, I joined the Marine Corps at 17 and never darkened my parent's doorway again unless I was visiting for Sunday dinner.

[tbw2]

Business Insider said there’s this undefinable economic malaise in the middle class, but it couldn’t quantify it. I can:

When you have lots of people paying off last decade’s dinners out and last season’s student loan debt, not much money is available to help today’s consumer economy.
Tack on jobs figures that are a lie, with a lot of younger people living with relatives because they can’t afford not to, the middle class parents in middle age or old age are supporting the younger generation - but the under-employed 25 year old doesn’t show up as unemployed, nor does the lay about with two masters’ degrees who never got a job.

[Buttons12]

I think having several generations together under one roof is a good thing. When my folks are ready they can come live with me, or I’ll stay with them.
They didn’t farm me out when I was dependent and helpless, and if they become so, I’m happy to put them up.

But even before parents need to be with their grown children, family life with grandparents and grandkids is not something to mock or disparage. Everyone contributes to the unit somehow, or should.

Yes, I realize there are dysfunctional families better off separated but that’s beside the point.

[JoeProBono]

[Excellence]

My mother left home when I was 16. Worse than that, she came back.

[RegulatorCountry]

The job market is weak, regardless of statistics that report otherwise. Landing a first job that pays enough to be independent is more of a challenge now than it’s ever been. If their parents welcome them, then their living arrangements are their business. Maybe they’re helping with household expenses.

[Gay State Conservative]

I was something of a late bloomer,living arrangements-wise.However,during those few years when many of my peers were on their own I was 1) helping my widowed,sickly father with many important household duties (seriously) and 2) working my a$$ off saving for a down payment on a house.As a result I put down 85% of the sale price on my first house...had it paid off 3 1/2 years after purchase and sold it some years later for about 600% of what I paid for it (location,location,location).

I don't think that type of thing is happening with today's "failure to launch" generation.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]