Boys in Bedrooms (2nd Edition)

“Not adulting.”
“I feel like a boy living in an adult’s body.”

These words have been uttered by young men all over Australia who have been caught in technology addiction cycles. No jobs, no social life, no partners, with only the four walls of their bedrooms and their online world to keep them company. These are The Boys in Bedrooms.

Fifteen years ago, Jay Freeman, a mental health social worker began to hear unusual stories from numerous emotionally and physically drained Australian parents who were labouring over their adult son’s bizarre social withdrawal behaviour and lack of emotional adulthood. For those caught in severe, long-term social withdrawal, often as a result of earlier years’ mismanaged or overwhelming events, their stories have become bleak. Lack of intervention from the family unit at the onset of social withdrawal has resulted in a generation of young men in their thirties and forties becoming reliant on the support of their aging parents, who should now be enjoying their
retirement.