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Originally posted by valkyrie
I don't give a rat's ass whether people live at home with their parents. How is it any of my business?
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I think it's an interesting sociological phenomenon rather than caring about a specific individual who is living at home with their parents. It's a general trend of avoiding adult responsibility which may have an effect on our society as a whole down the road. I'm curious too about the effects it could have on the economy (housing markets, car sales, other sales) if the trend were to continue and even grow. Also, if young people don't enter the workforce until later, how does that end up effecting their retirement savings/options in 30, 40, 50 years?
James: There is a different level of responsibility if you're living with roommates than there is when you're living at home. With roommates, you still have bills to deal with, household work to do, and far more responsibility than some of these "kids" they are talking about in the article who live at home, won't look for a career type job and do nothing but play video games. It's like a Peter Pan syndrome (I'll never grow up). Much of seems to be really permissive parents (big surprise) and a total lack of a work ethic.
At what age do people think it becomes "weird"? I can say that my ex-husband was sort of one of those guys. He stayed at home and went to a commuter university. After he got his first job as an accountant, he stayed home. He was working and going to grad school and not having to pay hardly any bills or do any housework. It ended being a total nightmare for me because, when we got married, he had to learn how to budget, how to cook, how to clean, do laundry, etc. He was totally clueless about all of it and he was 30 years old. It is probably 40% of the reason that we ended up divorced. At least he was working in his career and working on his MBA. He'll probably be a much better husband if/when he remarries, because he's so much more independent now than he was when we marrried.