One of the tells about how the Fairfield meditating community values the technique is that almost all of their children move out of town, stop meditating, and don't want to have anything to do with the movement again. Heartbroken parents are left adrift with a status of suddenly being a notch more marginal in Fairfield life. This is because the kids know bullshit. Four hours a day in the dome, and the parents don't get richer, don't get wiser, don't get healthier, don't stay marrieder, don't, don't, don't.....in front of those kids.
True, the children of many religious communities, too, do this. That may be the deeper wisdom...our children are not our own, but see? TM does not have the results that make it simple to sell itself enough to overcome the wanderlust-of-the-normal-young-adult-psyche -- wanderlust -- that's almost an American birthright, and the kids, who are right there in the trenches watching a technique affecting hundreds of others that they personally know, what do they do?......just skip out the back jack. (Heh, backjack....I pun without even trying.) Oh, sure, there's the rich believers who spend tens of thousands per year to be BIG on campus, and their kids would be stupid to not go along with their parents belief systems, since, hey, they're RICH!! Not that there's anything wrong with going-with what woiks. And, guess what, most of those rich biggies have kid problems as any other parents and, of course, they have their dropouts here and there. I know hundreds of TM families "enough" to say, it's running about 50/50. The movement's base is evaporating. TL;dr: TM is too much work -- really put out, and what? -- only end up being pretend friends with a bunch of jerks in a fucking cornfield? Really? That's your sell point?
