Adultolesence

The transition from adolescence into adulthood, also know as early adulthood, or adultolesence. When we think of someone who has not completely transitioned into adulthood, we think of an adult who still plays video games and lives in their parent's basement at 30 years old. Despite the fact that this may be an amusing image to most people, circumstances like this are actually happening in our world today. Our nation is seeing more adultolesences today than ever before. Why is this? Most would say it's because the people who are still living with their parent's at that age are just lazy and don't want to move on with their life. Sometimes this is the case, however, it is not always because they are lazy. The articles we read on the other blog show that many times people are not living on their own and supporting themselves because they do not have the economic means to do so. It's true that in the 1950's and 1960's more people became independent at an earlier age, but it was also easier to become independent during these years. If one compares the economy of the 1950's to the economy of today and how many more expenses someone has to pay now, I think they would be surprised to find out how much more expensive it is. Not only are these people responsible for paying off their college loans, but they are also responsible for all the expenses of living in their own place, such as the rent or mortgage, electricity, heating, water, etc. Most of the time, we don't have a high paying job when we first start out either, making paying off all these expenses that much harder. For this reason, many rely on mom and dad to support them for however long it takes them to get their feet on the ground securely.
The article says that there are 4 million people between the ages of 25 and 34 still living in their parent's house. This large number of people can't be just because their lazy and don't want to get a job and support themselves. Some do have financial problems that need to be worked out, and living at their parent's house until they work out those financial problems, staying at their parent's house takes a lot of extra bills off their hands like rent and all the water, heating, gas bills, etc. Perhaps the problem isn't the adultolescence, but rather the world in which we live in today.