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What Is It About 20-Somethings?
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Report; Posted on: 2010-08-25 16:10:31 [ Printer friendly / Instant flyer ]
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Maybe this is why many young people think Beethoven is a dog. EAU would like to change that...
This question pops up everywhere, underlying concerns about “failure to
launch” and “boomerang kids.” Two new sitcoms feature grown children
moving back in with their parents — “$#*! My Dad Says,” starring William Shatner as a divorced curmudgeon whose 20-something son can’t make it on his
own as a blogger, and “Big Lake,” in which a financial whiz kid loses
his Wall Street job and moves back home to rural Pennsylvania. A cover
of The New Yorker last spring picked up on the zeitgeist:
a young man hangs up his new Ph.D. in his boyhood bedroom, the
cardboard box at his feet signaling his plans to move back home now that
he’s officially overqualified for a job. In the doorway stand his
parents, their expressions a mix of resignation, worry, annoyance and
perplexity: how exactly did this happen?
It’s happening all over, in all sorts of families...
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News Source: nytimes
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