Knowing your age would help rationalize your opening line. First, in the 1960s, most Post-secondary students didn't have anything like today's student debt, because the easy student loans didn't exist. 

No, back then, jobs and careers weren't a "big bad world"--hanging around home until you were approaching 30 certainly would have been! Most of us couldn't wait to leave our parents and be independent. Good thing...many of us were pushed out--a bro.-in-law returned home from his late 70s. all-night high school grad celebrations and found his suitcases packed and waiting for him on the front porch!

Revisionist history at work here.