Today, 37 percent of men age thirty have never lived away from home

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48. The person interviewed in that article

has very limited knowledge of the history of families and of the way families live in other parts of the world. To her it is a disaster if the 1980s US model in not in force in all places at all times.

She also makes facile assumptions about people who live with their parents - that they won't take care of their own clothes, cooking, etc.

The article uses an unattractive fat guy to illustrate.

She admits that jobs are short - so what are we to do, make them homeless? The whole business calling it "clinging to mommy and daddy" is just to make these people look bad, when admittedly, it is tough to get a job.

She also assumes it will lower the birth rate! While admitting that we have plenty of immigrants so that we don't have to worry about that:

In the U.S., we don’t have a serious fertility problem because we have a significant immigrant population, which tend to have larger families. But if you subtracted the immigrants we wouldn’t look all that different from countries that are now suffering the consequences of very very low fertility, which usually means lower productivity. There are parts of this country where you can see very similar outcomes to what’s happening in Japan. There are a gazillion ways these demographic dynamics change the social landscape.

Starting to smell like right wing propaganda, here.

Apparently, they won't date because they are at home and therefore won't find mates! I guess teenagers don't date either - after all, they live clinging to mommy and daddy.