They have jobs but they are low paying jobs where they don’t earn enough to move out on their own.
Bingo! Someone working a 'McJob' for around 10 bucks an hour at Best Buy, Wal-Mart, some gas station or restaurant....ect....ect is going to have most of their paycheck consumed by rent or a mortgage. This leaves little choice but to move in with someone else. That might as well be the parents. This is probably a good thing, because it enables them to save money, but I doubt most do. They probably blow most of their paychecks on nights out with friends, credit card debt, booze, and iGadgets.
A friend of the family had a tough situation to deal with.
Their son had dropped out of college, was living at home, working minimum wage in a restaurant.
The son wanted to move his non-working girlfriend into his bedroom at home!!
The parents said, no way. They said, you can live your life as you want when you are completely on your own. But you will not have a live-in girlfriend in your bedroom here!!
To make a long story short, the son moved in with his non-working girlfriend, and is now supporting her and him. He is on a tight budget. But, the parents say that they have seen a change in their boy. He seems to have learned some life lessons about being responsible for his own life, which he didn’t have when he was still living at home.
The parents are not thrilled about this girlfriend, who seems to have her own issues, nor are they thrilled about their boy living in sin with a girl. But, they saw their son, to coin a phrase, grow up and be a man when he saw what he needed to do, to live his own life as he wanted to.