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It is always a pleasure when The Real Story gets to talk to generational researcher and author Chuck Underwood… his insights into how America looks through the eyes of its five living generations are worthy of discussion. Chuck is talking about the youngest generation, the Millennials, the leading edge of which is now 18 to 28 years of age. These young adults could not be less like their older siblings, Gen X, especially in their entrance into adulthood. Where Gen X was anxious to escape from their parents’ homes and create homes and families of their own, the Millennials are content to stay at home with their Boomer parents for a long time to come.

Why? They are entering adulthood with no perceptible employment market, and they owe plenty on college loans and credit card debt. They are not interested in taking the leap, so to speak, into adulthood, and since they consider their parents to be their friends, they are in no hurry to break up that nurturing relationship. They know that time is on their side, and that the economy is not offering the opportunities that other generations have seen in their post college days. So they are sitting on the sidelines, content to consider their parents’ homes as their own for the next few years.