What did you expect from a generation that can figure out which bathroom to use?
I encounter these Gen Z’ers everyday in transactions. As a whole, they are so stupid I don’t see now they manage to dress themselves every day.
I love to pay cash and give them odd change as payment. Their brains can’t compute it.
I read all this stuff from Gen Z folks. Yet, they don’t seem to want to get married or have a career. Those two things are the biggest factor in getting out of your parent’s house.
The American Dream is difficult to get as a solo player.
This is stupid. The youngest Gen Z would 11 years old, shouldn’t they live with their parents?
Too many Boomers on this thread mocking younger people who are in aggregate having a very tough time. (Note: I was born in 1964)
Yeah, we get Z etc. is sexually confused, obese, unfit and inept.
Children don’t raise themselves.
Gen Z failures are from institutions created by pervert and incompetent Boomers and Xers.
MIT Engineering prof Tom Eagar used to talk about his time at Bethlehem Steel in the 1970s. Where the executives thought they were the greatest business geniuses ever, because they had no competition after WW2. Then the Japs in the 1970s wiped them out.
Or the Boomer academics who all though they were the greatest academic geniuses ever because they all got tenure during the massive university expansions of the 1960’s.
Be thankful for what the Lord allowed you to achieve.
(Proverbs 17) Whoever mocks the poor shows contempt for their Maker;
This is the Hill reporting. Members of the Gen Z years were born between 1997 and 2012 and are ages of 12 to 27. It is not surprising at all that 1/3 are still at home. Our grandson 27 has been on his own for four years after college. Our granddaughter is finishing up her internship at a hospital and is still living at home. Our youngest is in junior high school. All from the same generation Z.
Children that HAVE grown up find it useful to hustle mommy and daddy.
Children that never grew up and had children anyway need to be chastened by having children forever in their lives.
Any way you look at it, We boomers are the grand parents of this wasted generation.
While I fully agree that Z is indoctrinated and unarmed in a battle of wits, I take issue that it is somehow no more financially difficult to move out for them than it was when I did in 1970.
Living expenses are much greater in proportion to basic level job wages than then. Though I doubt that even if expenses/wages proportions were the same this group would be capable of self sufficiency.
Still, I’d hate to be 20 and trying to live on my own right now. And I was HIGHLY motivated when I was 18. A bipolar alcoholic mother is one heck of a motivation for moving out and being self sufficient. I was about ready to live in a tent.
Moved out at 18. Never went back. Not up to my parents to raise me past that point.
What do they spend on Cell phones & ‘apps”?
What do they spend on cars?
What do they spend on clothes?
What do they spend on “ENTERTAINMENT”??
What do they spend on DELIVERY OF FOOD???
ZERO SYMPATHY HERE
The rising cost of housing is keeping many Gen Zers from living on their own.
But they can buy a $1400.00 I phone and other must need items huh.
Gen Z folks living up to their real name ... Gen Zero
I’m Gen X and I have three Gen Z kids. (And one Gen Y kid.)
None of my kids live at home because they were raised with the expectation that they would not live at home after 18 unless an emergency and then only briefly.
But after college, some of them did live with their GRANDPARENTS for a while (a few months), helping them with chores while they looked for their first post-college job. Then they moved out to rent a room in an apartment, with roommates.
One got married right after college. If more Gen Z kids married, there wouldn’t be so many living with parents. Two incomes helps pay that apartment rent.
What I’ve observed from my friends who allow their Gen Z kids to live with them: even if the Gen Z kid is employed, polite, paying rent, and helping with chores (and often they aren’t any of those), they still don’t seem to quite “grow up” or thrive.
Young 20-something adults thrive on a little independence and freedom I think. To afford moving out, they need to either marry or rent a room with roommates.
Multi generational families is the norm in most of the world...it used to be that way here.
Socrates bedeviled his younger generation, yet somehow, we have bumbled forward into the 21st century.