The 🕙Times American Parenting topic.

I believe the American obsession with parents throwing their kids out of the house as soon as they turn 18 like they’ve been millstones around the parents’ necks is so gross to me. I’m very lucky to have parents who love me and are accepting of me still living with them; I do pay rent to help with expenses but it’s significantly lower than what an apartment would cost, and I didn’t even pay rent at all until a couple of years ago.

I just really hate this notion that some people have that your duty as a parent ends when your kid turns 18. Some kids need support longer than that and that’s okay. In fact, in many other cultures it’s the norm for adult sons/daughters to live in the family home until they’re ready to start their own families.

I definitely think it’s becoming a lot more acceptable in the US for young adults to live with their parents though, given how high the cost of living has become. Maybe it was less acceptable to live with your parents at 24 when you could have easily gotten a factory job that would pay you enough to support a family and buy a house, but now we live in an age of stagnating wages and crushing debt.

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Tagged: but anyway my hot take is that if you're pissy about your 27-year-old kid having to move back in with you, because they lost their job and can't afford their apartment anymore, you're not a very good parent, rant, parenting, parenthood.