The Challenges Families Face

  • After adolescence...more adolescence. Why? Mostly, I believe, because young men don't know or are uncertain as to what they want to do with their lives.​
  • Young men are experiencing quarter-life crises at an alarming rate.
  • Men are struggling to graduate college, step into the workforce, step into independent adulthood, and deal with adversity and setbacks in life. 
  • Almost 1/2 of all men and women in the US between 18 & 24 live with one or both parents and as many as 60% are still receiving financial support from their parents AFTER college.​
  • Even after 25, more than 25% of all young adults in this country still receive ongoing financial support from their parents.
  • Raised to believe they can become whatever they want, many struggle to choose a path, at times grappling with depression, anxiety, sexual problems, binge drinking, suicidal thoughts and questions of sexual, gender and racial identity as they try “to understand how to be human.”​
  • Right now many young men are sitting at their parent's home in pajamas, their moms serving breakfast, while spending the day playing computer games, cooking up half-thought out business plans, or vegging out with a six-pack in front of the TV. 
  • There are also many are not living at home but are still stuck in low-wage jobs, depressed about their futures and using drugs to mitigate their stress and anxiety.​
  • No matter the particular scenario, the costs are huge. Parents with adult children living at home spend at least eight hours a week caring for them, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics’ time-use data.  That’s causing real shifts in the time they spend relaxing. (Their sex lives are also being affected.) And women are spending significantly more time taking care of these young adult children than men are.
  • We don't believe parents are weak and overindulgent, rather just without the necessary skills it takes to truly be effective in helping their loved one leave the nest.
  • ​We are empathetic because real life "failure to launch" is a serious problem that causes anguish and despair in thousands of families every day.