[SamAdams76]

Not sure this article qualifies as "Millennial bashing" as we have multiple generations of adult men living with their parents. This is just not healthy as it reduces those men to overgrown children who do not make good husbands or fathers.

With regard to women, it's normal for them to stay at home until married. That's always been a tradition and besides, even women living at home are shouldering household responsibilities and not sitting on the couch playing video games (as many men do).

Regardless of what generation you slot into, it's just not healthy for a grown man to live with his parents. It was that way when I came of age in the 1980s.

Also, I think joining the military out of school is an excellent "jump start" to living your own life. The military does an excellent job teaching a young man to be a responsible and disciplined adult who contributes positively to his family and community.

[sparklite2]

Also, I think joining the military out of school is an excellent “jump start” to living your own life. The military does an excellent job teaching a young man to be a responsible and disciplined adult who contributes positively to his family and community.

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Plus it is a noble way of running away from home. LOL

[wastedyears]

This is just not healthy as it reduces those men to overgrown children who do not make good husbands or fathers.

Why enter relationships or have children when so much of the world is hostile towards men?

[DoodleBob]

Thank you for the thoughtful reply. The article isn't an in-you-face bash of Millenials but some of the posts herein lean that way.

I, too, agree that living at home isn't a great long-run option (in the short-run economics may necessitate such a move). Furthermore, many of the Millenials I know are out of the basement. I also tend to know more Deplorable Millenials so that may be part of the reason.

While the military can certainly instill many things in a man that wouldn't be instilled otherwise (my Dad attested to that), I also think many guys who thrive in the military had the right stuff with which to begin. Putting Pajama Boy in the military likely wouldn't correct him. What I do think is a good 'lighter' option is to get youngsters into the Boy Scouts....yea, yea, I know, they've gone lefty blah blah blah. I haven't seen that and good troops CAN be found, and rarely do I meet an adult who was an active Scout who wasn't an upstanding adult.