Posted on 06/01/2016 8:01:25 PM PDT by nickcarraway
When we think of a child passing into adulthood, we usually picture independent living — perhaps with roommates, alone or eventually with a partner or spouse. Today that picture might need some adjustment.
A Pew Research poll released last week found that American men age 18 to 34 are more likely to be living with their parents than in any other living situation.
What’s going on? What’s happening to men? And, just as important: Why?
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Because their mothers won’t let them grow up.
Because women are called “breadwinners” in too many households where they are really just bread-takers.
Nonsense; they live that way simply because THEY CAN. I’ve been married and on my own for many years, but have no issue with guys opting for other paths. This isn’t being thrown out there out of any interest in the well-being of the men involved; it is being thrown out there in a futile attempt to find sperm and alimony donors for their female peers (and possibly sell some homes in the process).
Men today face a raw deal, and we shouldn’t second-guess their decisions (and freedom to make them).
Most of the guys I know who live with their parents still are there because their mothers won’t let them grow up.
No. Because rent is $800/month and they owe $60,000 in student loans and they jobs available are minimum wage jobs.
"Masculinity" has become a bad thing, and now we're surprised to learn of young adult "momma's boys?" Really?
Takes good payin secure jobs, medical benefits to marry, have and raise babies, buy mortgages, insurance, cars and everything that goes with all that. Not happening.
Thanks to 28 or so years of total loser leadership, that’s no bueno in today’s America.
The few guys I know in those arrangements are practically caring for their parents at this point (and the siblings that moved out on their own are glad the single ones can do so). I don’t know if I’d be living at home if I hadn’t gotten married, but I would feel no shame about it at all.
A while back someone posted a picture of a group of “awkward-looking” young men playing video games to mock them, and I asked why people were so determined to mess with their obvious happiness/contentment. Unsurprisingly, nobody could/would answer that question.
Maybe their loving mothers know what awaits them...
...because it is mutual. Some of the parents need care, or at least watching, and the children need homes.
In my family, one sibling (46) is caring for my parents full time, with pay. Trust me she is earning every penny.
Cuz women are festooned with tattoos and swear, and so men are less inclined to go out and form a household of their own with a women of their own.
And if they did..?
They’d get divorced and ruined. Or get the cops called on them for some made-up “abuse” that never happened.
They’re losing hope.
They’re being told they’re the scourge of the Earth and gradually some of them are beginning to believe it.
is this supposed to be hard?
men were created to lead and support families. families are the foundation of civilization, thus young men especially have a role to defend society. older, experienced men have a role to lead the nation.
when that goal and role is artificially blocked by the purposes of leftist ideology, young men will struggle.
Your take is more likely the reason for young men’s arrested development.
The economy is R-e-a-l bad for a lot of people...
RE: “No. Because rent is $800/month and they owe $60,000 in student loans and they jobs available are minimum wage jobs.”
Your great grand-parents were smallpox blankets distributors.
You stole the country from one set of people, then imported another set of people from whom you stole labor. And now you’re importing another set of de-facto slaves.
The earth is overheating and mankind is an infection, the oceans are boiling.
It’s ridiculous and 90% of people tune it out.
But some DO NOT.
Crappy economy and no jobs is the first reason.
You got it. There is a large percentage of people, “the kids” who are now providing the daily care for their folks. What did they think would happen when they turned simple health insurance into an unaffordable luxury for millions. Most would not believe what they want to house old folks in those death hotels they call senior citizens care homes or whatever they call them now. We’re talking anywhere from $4,000 to 10,000++ a month. Looken sharp America.
Go to the cure for these stay at home losers!
http://assets.amuniversal.com/7fb5bad005ca013461cc005056a9545d
More and more it seems the country does not like it’s OWN people.
Trump is right —vets get treatment worse than illegals.
The system LIKES illegals and women.
The system does NOT like it’s own guys.
When guys flirt a little with a women, “it’s SYMBOLIC rape”, whatever the hell THAT is.
The job scene, the dating scene and the University system all hate white guys, basically.
I can’t understand why this is all a mystery.
It’s a war on men, especially on WHITE men.
Yep exactly.. in the old days.. parents would live with the children.. it keeps them out of nursing homes..
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