Adult Children Living At Home: How Clinging to Mommy and Daddy Is Ruining a Generation

[superfan1]

As children grow up and venture out into the world, the transition from a bustling household to an empty one can be difficult - so, why not skip it all together?

Comments

[bowtomecha]

In the U.S., we don’t have a serious fertility problem because we have a significant immigrant population, which tend to have larger families. But if you subtracted the immigrants we wouldn’t look all that different from countries that are now suffering the consequences of very very low fertility, which usually means lower productivity.

I'm side-eyeing this and wondering why you would need to subtract the immigrant population to begin with.

[thepuddingcook]

Because of the "unfortunate implications" down the road? Namely, if there are way more "immigrant" babies than white babies, those "immigrants" are going to be the majority. And we can't be having that, can we?

[thenakedcat]

The most generous possible interpretation of that sentence: The fertility rate of recent immigrants has, throughout US history, dropped off very sharply in later generations. The children and grandchildren of immigrants have a near-replacement fertility on par with the general population.

[bowtomecha]

I hate that "americans" are a "we" versus the americans that are a "them". Its like saying that all 1st generation citizens aren't americans or don't have the potential to make new american citizens that inherit the cultural traits of this country.

[theguindo]

It's really stupid, too, considering that America has ALWAYS been a nation made up of immigrants. How many generations of whiteness do you need to have before you're "us" instead of "them"?

[thenakedcat]

The phrasing is problematic as all Hell, for sure.

[roseofjuly]

Okay, good, I wasn't the only person side-eyeing that.

[romp]

indeed