Failure to Launch.
The Student Loan deadbeats. All they want to do is poke at their cellphone all day and all night.
Back then, rent was $350/month, and you could buy a used car for $300.
My high school graduation gift was 2 suitcases. My clothes were in them.
My Mother said I should attend summer school.
By the way, I paid for all my college working at Safeway.
I had my own apartment in my senior year of high school, for a while I had to rent my couch to a Bandido to pay the rent, until I had to kick him out for insulting a girl and being cowardly.
Truly depends on the mindset of the young adults. In America in the 2000’s kids are ‘supposed’ to move out of the house shortly after high school.
Other cultures they stay home and be productive and enjoy family. My oldest left right out of high school, my youngest graduated from HS and while still a teenager is living here.
Very productive, moving ahead with promotions at her work, in a committed relationship with her boyfriend and saving money.
I actually have no problem with cohesive multi generational family units, per se.
The Waltons come to mind. Of course it was the depression.
Especially once a man marries he needs to establish his own household if possible, which usually means physically moving.
No natural. Give the parents some space.
My wife lived with her parents until 26, when we got married. It filled her bank accounts. And it did not slow down her “social” life at all.
All of ours were on their own by 20.
One does live in Grandma’s basement.
Actually, he’s an OTR trucker and only home on weekends. He helps her out and realistically it doesn’t make much sense to rent an apartment for two days a week.
Part of me understands. With millions of illegal aliens coming in to the country and getting housing assistance where are kids suppose to live competing with huge NGOs and the government. One of my first jobs was a welder making $20 an hour. Thirty years later the starting wage for an entry level welder is $17 while housing costs have increased ten fold. And now, with so much work being done remotely areas that were affordable have all been scooped up by corporations and wealthy transplants.
Myself. I moved out at 16. I couldn’t wait. After my adventure working for Uncle Sam I stayed with my parents a few weeks while I got everything ready for college, a job, and a place to live. It was miserable.
Wow. When I was in my early 20s, I didn’t know anybody in my age group who still lived at home.
Everybody either had their own place or shared a place with roommates.
If they are “adults”, then they’re not “children”, now are they? No, what they are, is ADULT LOSERS.
Adult not = child. Author of this article is an idiot. Not moron, idiot.
What would I call them? Losers. And, if the parents let him come back for more than a month, it is obvious why the loser got that way.