There really isn't a reason for it anymore as high housing prices and low wages make it difficult for the current generation to move into their own place. To my generation still living with your parents as an adult meant you didn't have your s**t together as there were very few good reasons for it. That is no longer the case now and I think it's time to shelve that particular prejudice.

Imo, it depends on if you're contributing rather than simply where you live. If you have a job and help around the house, etc, then no big deal. If you're a lazy slob mooching off of your folks, that's what is shameful.

People think it's a lack of independence/laziness. Honestly it depends on the situation, usually the circumstances make it such that the kid needs/has to stay there with the parents

It's not really shameful if you are helping out with bills, housework, groceries, etc...it's shameful if you mooch off of them. As long as you do your part, it's not shameful.

I think it depends on the circumstances. I have two mates if my age (35), I live in a rented home with my husband and son btw. One works full time, has a degree, pays her own way, runs her car etc. and as her parents are rich they don't ask for rent but ask that she saves for a house deposit which she is doing. The other doesn't work or bother to sign on (how you access out of work benefits), he only has a high school education (age 16), no driver's licence and earns a few quid to put credit on his phone by babysitting his brother. I can't see how this is acceptable. He isn't ill or disabled, (unlike myself who has a variety if physical and mental health conditions, my husband with depression and our son with ASD) and he just can't be bothered. So, yeah, it depends on the situation.

I agree with you. Only in North America are the kids supposed to leave home between 18 and 21. If they contribute either monetarily or with chores, why not have them at home?

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I don't agree with the "high housing and low wage" reasoning...trade jobs are booming right now and they pay wonderful salaries. They have very little

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Because you're 28 and should be living independently. Have to grow up sometime.

Unfortunately, they will not be prepared to ever have a life without you.