America's Obsession with Youth-focused Entitlement

The summer before starting college, Elijah Hurewitz-Ravitch sat in the family room with his dad, discussing what to pack for Yale. His dad handed him one of E&R Laundry's fliers, assuring Hurewitz-Ravitch that a campus laundry service would save him time.

Hurewitz-Ravitch, now headed into his junior year of college, says that laundry is "a basic domestic skill that everyone should probably know" but that his parents still don't know how to do their own laundry, much less how to teach him. His parents had acted like helicopters — overprotective and micromanaging — throughout his life, and Hurewitz-Ravitch says a college laundry service was "a way to extend the parental veil" even after he moved away from home.

So, when he started school, he fell into a routine. He'd finish work for the Yale Daily News by 10 p.m., read for his history classes until 2 a.m. and then drop off a blue bag full of dirty clothes at the E&R pickup point, tucked away in a campus basement.

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