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“In many countries, the phenomenon is so widespread that new terms have developed to describe it: bamboccioni [literally, big babies] in Italy, “hotel mama” in Germany, boomerang children in Australia, parasaito shinguru [single parasite] in Japan. These young men and women don’t leave home and don’t get married, because they only want to buy brand names and enjoy themselves and to live, as an ideology, at their parents’ expense. It’s nothing less than a pandemic.” https://www.haaretz.com/.premium-new-syndrome-grown-up-kids-who-stay-home-1.5336944
Boomerang Boy
If more interest charges he wishes to defray,
he needs to find a paying job without further delay.
He should at once take heed of my excellent advice
and give up on his former full-time job of shooting dice.
He might become a rose vendor, a troubadour or chef
or become the famous author of a roman a clef.
if only he would get a job, his parents would rejoice,
but, alas, sheer laziness is his career of choice,
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
Oh, those poor parents.
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Sad but true, I actully know 2 examples within the family. Cheers from Germany!
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Thanks for responding.
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I am quite familiar with the phenomena. Sadly, it is the result of upbringing. Those parents should exercise tough love. They are not immortal, so what would these overgrown good-for-nothings do, when there are no parents to exploit?
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I agree, “you reap what you sow”
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Recently I’ve also heard these children called snowflakes.
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Do you know why? Because they stick to you? Certainly, snowflakes don’t last but the “kids” do.
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I suppose it’s because they have no substance. 🙂
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Aha.. good explanation.
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I think a lot of this comes from the actions of the “helicopter parents,” who wouldn’t let their kids fail, or even have a tough time. It’s not easy to grow up and leave home, and if everything has been made super easy by doting parents, they don’t know how to get through the rough times of getting started. Everybody is doomed — the parents because the kids won’t leave home, and the kids because they don’t know how!
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I think you are right…and sometimes drugs have a lot to do with it, as well.
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Yes — drugs are a good part of the picture for these kids!
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I have a simple solution to the problem. Don’t have kids!
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I didn’t, but I married a man with 8.
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Eight – wow!
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Sometimes kids have problems … like having the company they expected to be working for go bankrupt … and other catastrophes. So what do you do? Send them to the street? Of course not. And eventually, they do find their way out again. I may take time, but it happens.
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I think this is a different matter all together, Marilyn.
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