Posted on 06/01/2016 8:01:25 PM PDT by nickcarraway
When we think of a child passing into adulthood, we usually picture independent living — perhaps with roommates, alone or eventually with a partner or spouse. Today that picture might need some adjustment.
A Pew Research poll released last week found that American men age 18 to 34 are more likely to be living with their parents than in any other living situation.
What’s going on? What’s happening to men? And, just as important: Why?
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Because women today just aren't worth it. That's why.
Nailed it. consider how old they will be when those student loans are paid off? Any chance of starting a family (the right way)? Saving for retirement? Nope & Nope. The American population is in for a major crash.
You’re right; to even get in oldsters have to turn over their assets and incomes, and at that point they lose their independence completely. I’d like to think when I have to deal with that with my parents we’ll be able to do better than that; many of those places are just grim...
I have a guest house out back of my house. My son is back from Iraq and afganistan and also eaned a 3.8 gpa on petroleum engineering and geology like his father — and like his father before him managed tondo so when oil hit a bust. Working his way up through the a major before he is ready to be on his own. In the mean time, free rent.
The federal government has been controlled for almost 100 years by people whose main purpose in life is to make war on the natural family. The income tax has been their chief weapon in making marriage and the raising of children (I hate the word “rearing.”) impossible.
I don’t think the Catholic bishops in America have ever taken note of the government’s war on the family. Instead, they have lobbied for every measure by which the government has undermined it—exorbitant taxes, welfare, etc., etc., etc.
Mine is home because of a divorce, paying child support for a kid he hasn’t seen in years, can’t find a job that pays enough to house and feed himself even with a college degree so he’s back in school learning a trade. He doesn’t like it, we don’t like it but that’s life right now. He’s clean, fed, roof over his head. If family doesn’t help you when you need it, who will ?
I’ve seen that as well, more than once.
“Most of the guys I know who live with their parents still are there because their mothers won’t let them grow up.”
It is true, many of the mothers are divorced and need a man in the house. The son with the heart will not abandon her in her loneliness and relative helplessness around the house.
Yep.
In my area (northeastern NJ) the Catholic hierarchy is reaping what they’ve sown for the American Catholic taxpayers; we’ve graduated from closing schools to closing parishes. They’ve lost young churchgoers with their liberal dogma replacing faith, and the “needy” they represent contribute NOTHING. At this point they’ve been reduced to property managers...
Because the Economy is doing so well under Obama, what else?
That, and Young Women can’t cook like the Guys Mommy’s do.
Parenting very bad. Unless kid is medically sick or he’s seriously studying in local school, parents need to kick adult kids out of the nest at 18 or so — so they achieve adult independence. Birds do it. Cats do it. People all throughout history have done it successfully, too. This is sick And really hurts the kids terribly.
It shouldn’t be shameful living at home. What should be shameful is the lack of drive to achieve something, while living at a home.
A roof is a roof, regardless of where it is.
Animals don’t have regulations that makes the cost of living impossible to do, if the income is less then $50,000/year.
Some are being very practical in win/win situations (looking after elderly parents). Some are enslaved by debt and save money at home. Some are chemically castrated. Some are eunuchs. Some are dysfunctional adults. Some are drugged out zombies. Some are lazy nogoodniks. Some are...
I believe the sex scandals destroyed the catholic church
Also property taxes in New Jersey is destroying what ever is left over to private schooling. That was the reason why taxes are where they are, so the public schools can eliminate private schools. More money for the Union bosses
Failure to Launch.
Parents too clingy to let go and push their kids to be responsible for their own lives. As life expectancies have increased, parents are not as eager to get on with their lives as they used to be, nor are they as eager to see their kids provide grand kids. They aren’t eager to feel “old” which grand kids do. Kids can tell their parents don’t want to see them go. This has been true for a long time, but adult children chafed at the rules of living at “home”. Fewer rules, more accommodating parents, less mature kids ... a perfect storm.
I am 55. My mother in law lives with us. Does that count.
Simple: $$$$$$$$$$$$
They can’t afford a place of their own.
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