@YoMomz Well, It stems from a Boomer mentality that they never wanted kids and resent them. Moreover, American Culture promotes kicking out boys at 18, when we are most vulnerable. I would NEVER allow my son to leave home til I was satisfied he had sufficient savings, investments, education, job skills, life skills, and contacts. The opposite is true; we keep females at home when we should be doing everything to marry them off and make them someone else problem. Backwards thinking.