Ah folks, how little you know of cultures around the world…
In the Far Eastern/Oriental mindset, families stick together. Certainly at least until marriage. My brother was 32 before he even looked at moving out – and even then my parents offered to let them (he was married by then) stay. You understand, when the woman marries, she marries into her husband’s family. Which is to say, she becomes the dutiful daughter-in-law whose job it is to take care of the aged folk.
This is why the Biblical injunction to shift your ass out of the parental home once you hitch up is so difficult for us. The only time you see folk leave home are (a) job offer/tertiary education overseas/outstation (b) marriage. And sometimes not even then.
Of course, this is less true now than it was in the past. The eldest son is still expected to inherit the family home, and so he at least might stay with the old folks.
This has little to do with slacker males. Yes, if I stayed on my own I do my laundry, clean house, cook etc. I barely see my folks as it is (breakfast and dinner is about it and maybe weekends). I pull down a regulay income and all too.
All that said, to see this happen in the Western context, where you boot your sprogs out at 18, is mildly disturbing…
