They are not willing to sacrifice their personal lives for their work lives and this leads people to equate that with an unwillingness to work hard.

My own worry today is less that of the overwhelming problem of elemental literacy than it is of the slightly more luxurious problem of the decline in the skill even of the middle-class reader, of his unwillingness to afford those spaces of silence, those luxuries of domesticity and time and concentration, that surround the image of the classic act of reading.

One problem that commuting students sometimes face is their parents' unwillingness to recognize that they're adults.