Kids should be barely out the door when I retire

[mathjak107]

why not send the kids to the movies or somewhere else for the day and then move ha ha ha

[ReachTheBeach]

One thing that occurs to me after all this discussion is that I view failure to launch differently from boomerang. I will still feel some responsibility if one of the kids hasn't locked in on what to do in early adulthood if there is effort. I wouldn't turn my back on a boomerang kid either, but a place to sleep would not be a room of their own and I would be helping find a job and a nearby place to live that fit the budget.

[BayAreaHillbilly]

Another thing to note. History does not repeat, but it rhymes. My paternal grandparents, who were born during the early 20th Century (aka "The GI Generation") rhymed with today's Millennials. Both of these generations were / are of the "Hero" archetype. Characteristically, when my grandparents were young adults, there was this little thingey called The Great Depression (you might have heard of it). For his first few years of life, my Dad lived in his grandparents (my great grandparents) house, because in today's parlance, his parents were Boomerangers. At the time, for people in their 20s, unemployment and underemployment were horrendous. Yes, this has a familiar ring to it.

Fast forward to the late 40s. My grands were moving into a newly constructed tract home in an inner ring "street car" suburb and the rest, as they say, is history.

[Submariner]

Two of our children boomeranged.

It happens.

In both cases, it lasted less than a year, and they were gone again.