With more and more college graduates returning home to live with
their parents, many adults are becoming frustrated with the rising
generation.
In the book Slouching Toward Adulthood, Sally Koslow shows how this trend is the natural result of the last two generations of parenting.
The problem is not so much the slumped economy and high unemployment,
although these are realities, but the fact that using student loans to
get through college is now the norm, so when students graduate they are
loaded with debt and many can't afford rent.
Even more difficult, the Boomer generation tended to bring up their
children with an attitude that left little room for the lessons learned
from failure.