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[quote=Anonymous]I'm almost sixty and when I graduated college back in the dark ages, I don't remember anyone in my group of acquaintances being a 'failure to launch'.  However, in our neighborhood, I would say that half of the students have moved back home after college and are not really progressing forward.  Students from George Mason, Virginia Tech, UVA, ODU, and some private colleges in Virginia.  Taking jobs as dog groomers, personal trainers at a gym, etc.  I don't really understand it but I do wonder if it has something to do with overinvolved helicopter parents.  I also know a lot more parents who are paying their kids' rent even though the adult child has a job (Larlo doesn't make enough as a teacher to live alone, and he can't have a roomate, etc. ), or paying for cars, expensive vacations, etc.  Yeah, it's a rich people problem but it still seems strange to me.  There is one family where the adult daughter who still lives at home as joined an adult soccer rec league in our hometown and mom shows up with cupcakes and cookies and cheers for the players at all the games, like she is reliving high school.  It seems kind of . .  pathological?[/quote]

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