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.