 their kids as soon as they turn 18, are deplorable, he says. And this echoes what has become an increasingly common view on the right. For a while, the kind of stereotypically conservative thing was to say that when a child turns 18, they need to move out of the house and take care of themselves and learn how to support themselves. But there's been an interesting backlash against that recently, with many conservatives saying that, no, actually, kicking your adult child out of the house is wrong.