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[quote=Anonymous]I don't think it's an age thing.

You can be 28 or 35 or 47 and live with your parents because it's a mutually fulfilling choice. Saves money for all of you, help each other out, maybe grandparents help with childcare. Intergenerational living isn't by definition a failure if everyone is on board.

If you are a parent who wants you kid to move out, but your fully employed, independent kid prefers to live at home to save up for a down payment, and you're unwilling to express to him that this is no longer working for you, similarly, I wouldn't call that failure to launch. That's just failure to grow a spine and communicate.

But if you're in the more common American position of a child living at home who is un/under employed, with or without a college degree but no graduate school, and truly unable to financially live independently when that's the parent's desire, I'd move that to the failure to launch category when the situation has been fairly static for over a year and the kid is over about age 25. [/quote]

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