re: Half of US young adults live at home, fueling luxury good boom

Buying designer clothes and handbags because mom and dad are still paying for their housing and food. Sounds responsible

I’m 55. Solid Generation X.

Married, no kids. (My wife had cancer on her ladyparts). But I’d like to think there’s no way in hell I’d fail as badly as it seems a lot of people from Gen X have at raising kids.

Granted, it’s probably the later Gen Xers, or early Millennials, but wow. Y’all really fricked up somewhere.

I mean the collective y’all, not you specifically. I’m sure most of this board did just fine.

I think my generation did ok being raised the way we were. We were latch key kids sometimes, sure. But we played outside with no supervision. We came home when the streetlights came on. We were not overloaded with electronics like PlayStation and Xbox. Yes we had Atari but only a few games and they did not consume us the way games do nowadays. We certainly did not have cell phones or any other electronic leashes. As soon as we were old enough to ride a bicycle and shoot a pellet gun the wilderness of our surrounding neighborhoods was our world to explore and we did so. Helicopter parents didn’t exist yet for most people we got to be wild feral little kids the way it should be.

We built tree houses way too high up and way too dangerously designed. At some point playboys magically appeared in those tree houses and we got to discover what naked women look like. The world was a mystery but we had a burning desire to uncover the secrets of our worlds and did so with reckless abandon.

But somewhere along the way of growing up a bunch of us, or maybe the younger ones turned into neurotic overprotective shitty parents.

What happened?

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early Millennials

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The earliest millenials were born in 81. Most of their kids should still be living at home. The oldest kids they should have is 22. Getting knocked up at 18 or under isn't a good decision.

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But somewhere along the way of growing up a bunch of us, or maybe the younger ones turned into neurotic overprotective shitty parents.

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I'm not innocent. I was more protective than my parents. I just think the information age has created mass anxiety and paranoia.

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because saving on daily necessities like rent and groceries is freeing up disposable income for discretionary spending

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Responsible working people (like myself) are proving to be the fools more and more everyday

Even those living elsewhere have their parents pay for everything until 30, ridiculous.

If your child of a certain age is living at home and they have money for "luxury", you as a parent are doing it wrong.

With home prices being what they are who can blame an unmarried 25 year old for living at home if that is an option instead of renting? Obviously if said 25 year old is blowing it on “luxury goods”, sure that’s a problem, but that is just as indicative on the parents as the kids, why are they allowing it?

But yeah, context means a lot in statistics like this.

The machine wants mindless consumer drones