Failure to launch? Retreat helps young men finally move out

The Associated Press calls them "the modern-day lost boys."

Matthew McConaughey gave them a face in the critically panned flick "Failure to Launch."

More young men live with their parents today than in generations past. Whether it's the poor economy, high unemployment rates, anxiety, or "lack of early adult life plan" to blame, the still-at-home epidemic is leaving some parents at wits' end.

"Federal statistics show that young men are, for instance, nearly twice as likely to live at home with their parents than young women their age. They're also less likely to finish college, or to have a job. The struggling economy has only made things worse," the AP reports.

Insight Intensive at Gold Lake offers a solution to parents and their unmotivated sons.

"Located near Boulder, Colorado, on a 100-acre retreat campus in the majestic Rocky Mountains, Insight Intensive at Gold Lake is the first short-term therapeutic residential program specifically designed to address the 'failure to launch' epidemic affecting young men ages 18 to 26 today," claims the retreat's official site.

The luxury retreat — at $350 a day for three to four months, it's not cheap to have your son move out — operates to help 25 young men at a time set small personal goals, gain life skills, learn to bounce back from failure and write a life plan they can get excited about.

The goals start small: Go to bed in the p.m., wake up in the a.m. Make your bed. Soon, those goals extend to resume-writing and apartment-hunting.

The retreat also addresses addictive issues, and offers clinical services and mentoring.

It's not for everyone. But for rich families with kids who won't budge (or who don't know the first thing about independent living) it's a gorgeous "summer camp" experience that just might end with a moving truck — finally.

If that doesn't work, you could always just change the locks.