You really know how to raise your children to survive in this world.......excuse me........your world.
What’s going to happen when the day comes that they are actually going to have to improve their skills, get a good job, move away and become self-sufficient adults?
I feel that day will never come because you are ensuring it for them.
The modern model of “parenting” today is to be your kid’s best friend but also support your kid financially at the same time. Soon you have an adult toddler on your hands. Yeah they may “help” you but it’s still sheltering them from the real world—problems with neighbors, tax assessments, rent hikes, etc.
also the “three generation” model of family structure was always in lower socio economic groups our of sheer necessity. Not just for the sake of knowing Junior will be coming home every night.
Democrats have caused the socio economic scenario to go BACKWARDS, ensuring a perma-poverty stricken class amongst the millennials which forces many of them to live with their aging parents.
Outside of that if the AGING PARENTS are encouraging the basement living model, it’s just filling an emotional need for the AGING PARENTS which the adult children shouldn’t have to bear.
I couldn’t WAIT to move away from home at age 17—which I think is a more normal state than wanting to live in BFF mommykin’s basement permanently. My parents did not befriend us—to this day there is still that invisible barrier between adult and child, so as it should be and they’re in their mid 80’s.
Did you read the article? Neither of my oldest kids has a spare $1000 even to share a place with a friend. My kids both work and are good people. One is waiting for his junior transfer university acceptances and then is about to make his decision which university to go to. I’m not raising them any more. But I’m here if they want advice from a parental unit.
Life is short. We take care of each other. No one should hurry to be alone.