The Guy-Child. Lost In Space?
The girl-child is on a tear, breaking corporate barriers, having children later in life when other goals are met and generally wading into what was once a man’s world with elbows jabbing and knees flying. A derogatory comment by Harvard president Larry Summers that women may not have quite the stuff to compete with men in the sciences, cost him his job. Women are all the rage
But where’s the guy? Dropping out and going home to live with mom and dad, if you can believe the tracking statistics. Leonard Sax writes in the Washington Post that
“One-third of young men ages 22 to 34 are still living at home with their parents, taking up residence in their old room, the same bedroom where they lived when they were in high school, working 16 hours a week at Kinko's or part time at Starbucks.”
Parents are pulling their hair out. "For God's sake you're 26 years old. You're not in school. You don't have a career. You don't even have a girlfriend. What's the plan? When are you going to get a life?"
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