Why Are So Many Young Adults Moving Back In With Mommy And Daddy?

In the United States today, more young adults than ever are living with their parents. Right now, approximately 53 percent of all Americans in the 18 to 24 year old age bracket are living at home. But many of them are still in school, so that is to be expected to a certain extent. What is even more frightening is that one survey found that 85 percent of all college seniors plan on moving back in with Mommy and Daddy after graduation. But isn’t college supposed to be about getting the skills and education that you need so that you can become independent and start a life of your own? Something has gone seriously wrong. Even more frightening is a different survey that found that 29 percent of all Americans in the 25 to 34 year old age bracket are still living with their parents. Once you hit your late twenties or early thirties you should definitely be able to live on your own. That is a time when young adults should be married, establishing their careers and starting families. Overall, approximately 25 million American adults are living with their parents in the United States right now according to Time Magazine. So what in the world has happened? Why are so many young adults moving back in with Mommy and Daddy?

Well, the following are a few of the factors that are involved….

Our Education System Does Not Prepare Them For The Real World

The education that our young people receive gets “dumbed down” a little bit more every single year. Many of our young people can barely read or speak coherently when they graduate from high school, and they certainly are not being equipped with the skills that they need to be successful in our increasingly complex world.

In a previous article entitled “How Stupid Are American High School Students?“, I detailed many of the shocking statistics that show how poor our education system really is.

For example, did you know that a survey conducted by the National Geographic Society discovered that only 37 percent of all Americans between the ages of 18 and 24 can find the nation of Iraq on a map?

We have lowered our standards so far that we might as well not even have standards anymore.

In another previous article I discussed some of the signs that our young people are rapidly falling far behind the rest of the world….

-In 2011, SAT scores for young men were the worst that they had been in 40 years.

-At this point, 15-year-olds that attend U.S. public schools do not even rank in the top half of all industrialized nations when it comes to math or science literacy.

-The average young American will spend 10,000 hours playing video games before the age of 21.

Sadly, our education system is not something that is going to be reformed overnight. These problems took a long time to develop and they are going to take a long time to be fixed.

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