If you missed last weekend's exposé about millennials destroying America from their parents' basements, updating their social-media status while neglecting to address their jobless status, and rejecting marriage in favor of the hookup scene, don't worry. There's always next weekend. Suffice it to say, millennials take it on the chin pretty often. Some of the criticism is deserved. Much of it isn't.
1. Millennials depend on their parents and can't find jobs.
We have all seen the satirical cartoons portraying millennials — also known as Generation Y and echo boomers, variously defined as young adults born sometime between 1978 and 2000 — moving back in with their parents after college or graduate school. It's true that a larger share of young people live with their parents today than did in the '60s. But the difference is not vast (36 percent today versus 32 percent in 1968, according to a Pew Research Center analysis). And more of them live on their own or with a roommate than in prior generations.