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Your take on the issue is right on. families once stayed together for a lifetime. When we were an agrarian country sons just built another house on the farm and set up housekeeping and continued to help run the farm. Girls who never married stayed with parents and took care of them in their old age.

It's natural to want to keep the "clan" together. Our last son stayed with us for 8 years after he graduated from H.S. He worked the whole time and we were happy to have him at home. He has stayed close to us even after he married. Thank God, because I get to keep the grandchildren.

I told my kids they better study hard and get a good job so they can afford a nice house with a big guest room, because we’re moving in.

Amen, and not only natural but they way (I think) God wants things. He wants us all very closely involved in each other’s lives daily, with all the details, helping, counseling, encouraging, rebuking etc - all that good stuff — VS the godless secular heathen instruction that is chock full of lies, selfishness and ultimately empty, lonely lives that don't make one dang bit of sense. Fathers are responsible to those children, especially the daughters Biblically - till she marries. How can the father (and mother) do what is called on them by God if the unmarried adult is on the other side of down or further in an apt with a bunch of girls doing who knows what. Anyway - old news - right - we see what we got with the secular recipe for our unmarried children.