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> Some parents are generously allowing their children to live at home rent-free. Mine are not.

As someone who has struggled with my parents for years to let me go and live on my own place (on my own expense), I can't understand why parents won't let their children live with them.

Is it because of space? Is it because of the extra cost? (I'd suppose it is negligible and you could contribute to it)

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The thought is that subsidizing lifestyle choices is unhealthy compared to letting people get accustomed to the lifestyle their income affords.

This might be understandable if the guy is blowing his money on drugs and parties. But if he is using the rent + food money to save it later (for a purchase or by investing in stocks), then how is that unhealthy?

People have a funny way of confusing nice-to-haves and essentials. Getting used to a certain lifestyle in certain kinds of neighborhoods can be unhealthy, at least in abstract.

Of course different people are different. This isn't a universal law or something.

> As someone who has struggled with my parents for years to let me go

Why is that? Helicopter parents?

It's a very common thing in the country I live in.

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