The Lost Boys

As we begin reading the classic book, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, one of the topics that has come up in discussion is the idea of extended adolescence. After some research online, I stumbled upon the concept of the "Boomerang Generation", which is a term used to describe the current generation of young adults who move in and out of their parents' house or "boomerang" back and forth from adolescence to adulthood. Though this term doesn't describe the entire generation, I think it is a pretty good summary of the type of young adults in our country right now.

Being the youngest child of three, I have a lot of experience with twenty-somethings who have finished college, but have yet to find a full-time job. Though both of my siblings are working or going to school, they have noticed that out of their close friends from high school, only about 10% have "actual" jobs, while the other 90% are living at home or teaching English in a foreign country. The obvious cause for this change in the lives of young college graduates is the recent economic crisis. Since there are so many experienced adults unemployed, the first-time job hunters are having an even harder time finding a job in the industry they studied in school. I think the economic instability of this generation is forcing them to rely on their parents and keeping them in a perpetual state of adolescence. Do you think there is any way for a young adult to reach adulthood without economic stability?