Maybe isolation from wiser, older adults is exacerbating this situation. Grandma and Grandpa are good for more things than to shuffle off to a retirement home, oftentimes.
Nobody should be looked at as a "child" at the age of 26, but that's how our government sees it now. Living at home and NOT being out in the world, at what once was considered to be an adult, is stupid! So is the delay of marrying and THEN having a child/children, also makes people needy, selfish babies.
Sure the economy stinks and getting a job is very difficult today, but when someone majors in "BLACK", WOMEN'S", SOCIAL JUSTICE Studies, "COMMUNICATION", etc., makes getting a real job extra difficult.