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?
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
A healthy 34 year old male living with his parents is NOT a man!
I don’t think that counts at all. Even if it was your mother.
The sex scandal emerged after the damage had been done (though it certainly didn’t help); they did financially what the hierarchy had already done spiritually (bankrupted it).
While the destruction of the private school system is a byproduct of the high taxes, the primary purpose of our tax structure is so the enemy can live off occupied land, so to speak; the taxpayers have to fund the union dues that are funneled to Dem candidates that can squeeze the taxpayers for more money for union dues to be funneled to Dem candidates that can squeeze more money from taxpayers to fund more union dues...(you get the picture). The teachers’ unions in this country are the backbone of the Democratic Party, which is simply their political arm; they will keep the borders open to keep schools open to keep union dues (de facto “political taxes” by which taxpayers are required to fund the Democratic Party) flowing...
The feminazis have destroyed the idea of real manhood.
After high school, you moved out asap--for a man to live at home with parents for any length of time, without aggressively seeking independence, was shameful. No self respecting man would be caught dead sitting home playing video games, even if they existed.
For some, moving out meant joining the military, either by enlistment or the draft. For some it meant college. For many others it meant getting some skills, starting a business, or getting a job.
It was expected to get married in the late teens or early twenties-- it was just what you did.
There is no reason these scenarios should not hold today-- except that they are not "normalized." The economic complaint is a cop out. There are good paying jobs going begging because too many egos get in the way of going to work. Any young man can still make his own way, if he merely has the gumption.
Oh-- and, "their mother's won't let them grow up?" Good god, what drivel.
I think you may have missed the male hating/anti male/end masculinity feminist movement of the last 40 years. It was wild.
“I’m afraid the under-20s now just want to be taken care of, and it’s going to come back on them big-time. “
You are absolutely correct.
Bad Government policies have created perverse incentives that affect/direct behavior.
The underemployed/unemployed males living at home don’t have much of a dating life and thus not much hope of starting a family or becoming fathers.
I really feel sorry for them. The 20’s and 30’s go by very quickly. Its never to late just isn’t true for many things in life.
Females on the other hand can always have children and have the government pay the bills. This creates another different set of problems for society.
That's what males of my generation were told, at a very early age, by females through the media.
Feminists took over the public education realm, declared the male way of learning invalid, determined normal male behavior to be a medical condition requiring medication, and found males to be over-represented in higher education.
“A healthy 34 year old male living with his parents is NOT a man!”
Total nonsense. One reason is the cost and convenience.
Also, have you heard the saying that goes something like “Judge ye not, so you won’t be judged”?
Each may have their own reasons and if it works fir them and the parents, it’s none of anyone else’s business.
That is an effect, not the cause.
$800 a month is a bargain where I live for a good location. Rent in major cities is crushing. Many men and women in the city live 2 to 4 to an apartment. Some don't mind but that faced with that why bother?
Also, the moving out thing is a recent American thing. Most people around the world live in family compounds. This will become more normal as jobs decline and pay declines due to automation and globalization.
Probably cause you’re not really worth the effort.
They scream for no borders. The immigrants they can’t get enough of vote 70% pro-abortion. I’ve been banned from the Facebook pages of Cardinal Dolan, Archbishop Chaput, and Archbishop Gomez for pointing out this fact.
Guy leaves home.
Guy marries woman.
Woman gets bored.
Woman leaves.
Woman takes half of the man’s salary.
Man moves back home with his parents.
Then the women trash him for not being a good guy.
Yawn...
Ask Jonathan Starker, LOL!
My Mommy was universally recognized as a GREAT cook. When I got hitched to Mrs. Chandler, her most elaborate dish was Kraft Macaroni and Cheese. That was then. Today, Mrs. Chandler is so good in the kitchen she could host her own show on the Food channel.
Come to find out, when my Mommy was first married to my Daddy, she didn't know how to boil water either.
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