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[quote=Anonymous][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 [b]but no graduate school[/b], 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]

What does grad school have to do with it? Or are you saying that a kid could be underemployed but in grad school and that doesn't count[/quote]

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