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Left home too soon

Perhaps I misread Froma Harrop’s July 2 column, but I was left with the impression that anyone over 18 still living with parents was either a bum, moocher, loafer, panhandler, derelict, sponger, or perhaps all of the above. How does she square this with President Obama’s legislation (destined to become reality in another year or so) allowing children to be left on parent’s health insurance policies until age 26-27 or thereabouts?

She cites swelling numbers of still-at-home young people, but she doesn’t know the half of it. Across our nation right now, single houses are shared by two, three, maybe even four families, with no one family being able to afford an individual home. What is our sad economic state the result of but too many young people buying houses they could not afford, cars they could not afford, and yes, having children they could not afford. Maybe they should have stayed home just a bit longer.

I never have and never will comprehend the mentality of those who go to bed together, procreate another human being into this rat hole and declare: “Once he’s 18, out he goes. We’re not responsible any more.”

I have news for them.

Dennis P. Roberts

Spokane



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