"He had just earned a master's degree in political science from the University of British Columbia and had recently sent off a raft of applications to law school. But he was between jobs. And he did live with his parents. "I figured, why not have some fun with it?" he said. "Better to be a 'stay-at-home son' than 'unemployed' or 'schmuck' or 'lazy guy.'""
"He certainly wasn't expecting to set off a media moment of stories and think pieces on so-called "trad sons" - adult men who embrace the lifestyle of living with their parents. "I'm sort of the origin of all this discourse," Liaw, 28, said. He was speaking from an apartment in Vancouver, British Columbia, where he had recently finished his first semester in law school and his first stint living outside his family's home, with a roommate."
A 28-year-old man described jokingly calling himself a "stay-at-home son" while between jobs after completing a master's degree and applying to law school. He lived with his parents during that period and later moved to an apartment while beginning law school. Media coverage picked up on the phenomenon of "trad sons" or "hub-sons," adult men who embrace living with parents. The trend appears amid broader public anxiety about young men, touching on loneliness, appearance, physical fitness and questions about contemporary masculine identity and life choices.
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