<p>There are definitely the cultural aspects to be considered, however, once you are a generation removed generally a family has assimilated into the US culture where, as someone pointed out, the norm is for an undergraduate college students to be on their own. I supposed if a family kept to a cultural community and the student was returning to that cultural community to live, work and marry it would make little difference. But conversely, immigration frequently occurs because people want to leave a particular cultural community so I find it interesting that some would work so hard to replicate that which they left. </p>
<p>I can’t say whether or not it is “difficult” for kids to find jobs. I graduated undergrad in the middle of a horrible hiring environment (think big recession, high unemplyment, federal stimulus deja vu) and it took 3 months to find a first job and the pay was awful and I had to live with others and I would run out of money days before payday… so I brought that perspective to the table with our boys. I knew they could find work and I knew they could survive without the luxuries they grew up with. But I also knew that overtime they would never regret the perceived hardships and would be better for those experiences. Perhaps parents that came of age in the go-go eighties never had that experience so have a more difficult time envisioning hardship finding a job and blame the economy.</p>
<p>Let’s not get carried away with some sub cultures. I’ve thought I’ve read Italian men still live at home at the age of 36. I’ll bet you even some Italian mothers don’t like it. </p>
<p>ha ha…of course Italian mommas won’t like a 36yo son still single and living at home. An Italian momma would want him married and making babies by the time he was 30! ;)</p>
<p>S never lived home since he moved to this country for community college, though came home at weekends for good meals. The city college here didn’t offer dorm, so I paid an expensive commercial one to put him in a cultural and language environment. It worked well for his English but most boys there took drugs so he ended up moving to a studio apt. After transferred to the state U in another city with a much better student culture, he stayed in dorm for two years. This is the last year of school, and I get him a two bed apt sharing with another student. I am doing this to prepare him for the transition between school and real life. But it’s obvious that he can’t afford the rent even he would get a job right after his graduation. </p>
<p>My dad’s oldest sister never left home. She lived in their childhood home for her whole life and took care of her parents. She got married and had a kid, they all lived in that same home.</p>
<p>People who don’t move out of their parents’ home – or who move back in (as my father did after his divorce) – often end up being their parents’ caregivers.</p>
<p>Perhaps if more young people knew this, it would make a difference.</p>