The article about the longer road to adulthood is so freaking full of fail.
I don't even know whose families they're looking at. All of the people I know have lived with their folks at some point in their twenties, sometimes with wife and kids in tow. (My folks lived with my grandparents for a couple of months when I was 2 whilst our houses were being built. My husband and I lived with his parents for about 10 weeks after he left grad school. My best friend and her husband lived with his folks for a few months whilst their townhouse was being finished. And the list goes on.)
My thought was that you lived with your folks until you either got married or found a job that could support you. If you never found a job that could support you, then you ended up at home, with your folks, a bit of a laughing stock, but not homeless.
Besides with college getting more expensive and businesses not hiring people who are unemployed and no universal health care what are young people supposed to do? Move out and be homeless?
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Date: 2010-06-16 02:42 pm (UTC)I don't even know whose families they're looking at. All of the people I know have lived with their folks at some point in their twenties, sometimes with wife and kids in tow. (My folks lived with my grandparents for a couple of months when I was 2 whilst our houses were being built. My husband and I lived with his parents for about 10 weeks after he left grad school. My best friend and her husband lived with his folks for a few months whilst their townhouse was being finished. And the list goes on.)
My thought was that you lived with your folks until you either got married or found a job that could support you. If you never found a job that could support you, then you ended up at home, with your folks, a bit of a laughing stock, but not homeless.
Besides with college getting more expensive and businesses not hiring people who are unemployed and no universal health care what are young people supposed to do? Move out and be homeless?