In most cases of, well, anything, a one size fits all approach is less than ideal... Kids thrive at different ages and there's no real reason to dump an 18 year old out into the world except for social/cultural reasons we made up

Not at all. People can totally move out if they have the means to but the reality is that most 18-year-olds probably can't afford to. Normalizing it would cause more harm than good for people's perceptions of success.

No, better to give people a break and let them hang out a while before having to get a job and everything. Working is just a necessary(?) evil, not a virtue. In Spain things are much more relaxed in general, and people tend to stay with their parents and be jobless well into their 30's. I think Spain sounds like a much better place to live. I also like the idea of many generations living in one home, it's more efficient, there's more company and support, and there's less work involved than for everyone to have their own homes and cars. And forcing people to move out the minute they turn legally adult is the opposite of that.

No. That’s odd to me. I don’t think it’s a one size fits all thing. I always feel badly for kids whose parents literally kick them out of the house on their eighteenth birthday or shortly thereafter. How could your child not feel unwanted and not think that you’d been planning and plotting to do this since the day they were born. Wouldn’t that make most of us feel like a burden? These kids always seem so resentful of their parents when they become older, as well. Just my onion 🧅, as a wise woman once said. 🤷🏻‍♀️

I think it'd be fucking COOL if the youths of today always had the RESOURCES at 18 to move out if they wanna. But no, I don't think it's a good idea to normalize moving out at 18. Almost no one seems to actually be able to do that, in the US anyway. I also don't think where you have to shelter yourself, regardless of your age, should ever be a source of shame or guilt. Han Solo cut open a tauntaun and crawled inside it to save himself and his friend and no one said SHIT about THAT.

It's not bad to live at home per say. But if you are in your 30's playing video games all day while your 55 year old dad suportds you

For me personally it was a very good thing to leave my parents' home at 18. I went to college and started living in dorm, free from the control of my parents especially my dad. I needed to be away from them because I didn't get along living with them under the same roof. This is how I feel about leaving my parents' home. If I had a normal family I'd probably have a different view about it but based on my own experiences it's better to be independent of your parents as soon as possible.

well it was an important first step for me.

if you're lucky enough that you can find a job and live well with your parents, go for it.

if you've been living the boarding school life, like me, for way too long and yearn for freedom, go for it.

just don't make brash decisions that bite you afterwards.

also what is this normalizing bullshit, we don't live as drones in an ant colony last time I checked.

biiiiiiiiiiitchh nah! Nothings normal about growing up and turning into an adult.

No. Everyone’s different, and at that age can be at very different stages in their lives. Some could be settled into a job and a steady relationship, wile some could be still in education.

Phew.. every situation is different and every person is too, so to demand to follow that rule is inappropriate to say the least.

Nah b, that might have been fine in the 1950s but these days it's just not practical. They should move out when they're able to support themselves, unless your plan all along was to spend 18 years raising a kid so they could be homeless

It's not common at all IMO. I still know people in their 30's that still live with their parents.