Twentysomethings? I know people in their 30s, 40s, and even early 50s who are living with their parents, accepting money from their parents, or their parents bought them their house or car.
A friend of mine has a son who’s almost 30. He hasn’t worked in almost 10 years and sure isn’t going to start now. “Well...he gets nervous on job interviews,” his mother excuses him in whispered tones behind his back. Of course he does, since he hasn’t been on an interview in almost ten years! So he gets to live with Mommy while SHE pays the bills and even cooks his meals. I often wonder how he explains this to the girls he dates. When I was dating age, a guy “still living with his mom” was to be avoided. Maybe now, all of the twenty-somethings are living with their moms so there’s no stigma.
Not sure where this will all end, but it doesn’t look good. The wealth of the Greatest Generation, baby-boomers, and Gen-Xers won’t last forever. They’re living off the fumes of it now.
So he gets to live with Mommy while SHE pays the bills and even cooks his meals. I often wonder how he explains this to the girls he dates.
"Oh... uh.. yeah, I live with my parents to help take care of them... uh... I mean they live with ME so I can help take care of them... uh, well now that you've asked, the house is technically in my mom's name, but I'm buying it. Or we've talked about that, but it's not final, but SOME DAY, becuz she's not gonna live forever, so uh..."