Yeah, I know: Even-handed posts are contrary to the spirit of R&P. What can I say, I'm a "one hand, other hand" kind of guy. Part of their shortcomings come from poor parenting and part are circumstantial. That they have excuses doesn't necessarily excuse them.ImLawBoy wrote:I mean, aren't you really doing a good job here of explaining why things might be so different, and it's not just because kids today are soft and overprotected?Kraken wrote:I've heard tell that Thursday is the new Friday because millennials consider Fridays part of the weekend and won't work. IDK if that's true or just fits into the hate.
In my day, moving back in with your parents was the ultimate admission of failure. I would have lived under a bridge and eaten worms before I would have suffered that humiliation or taken any money from them. Adulthood began with independence, and there was something wrong with you if you weren't independent by age 18 (or early 20s for us college types).
I read that >30% of kids aged 18-34 live with their parents, making that the single most common living arrangement for the first time in 130 years. It's worst among boys (I hesitate to call them men) at nearly 50%. Living with a spouse came in a close second, living alone was third, and all other arrangements (such as roommates) made up the rest. In general, women of their generation are more independent and successful than men.
'Course, we didn't graduate $50,000 in debt into McJobs and insane rents, so mollycoddled childhoods aren't the whole explanation.
I do think that we should encourage boys to play with knives, though.