Adults Moving Home
Although the practice is not new, it is becoming a common trend in twenty-first century America for adults to return home after college or even later in life to live with their parents. This practice breaks with the tradition of young adults living independently when they reach 18 years of age. While returning home after college has occurred since the early twentieth century, the numbers of adult children moving home has significantly increased since 2007. This development is the result of many factors.
High housing prices, the rising cost of higher education, and the relative affluence of the older generation are among the reasons adult children move to their childhood home to live with their parents. Today almost four in ten adults age sixty or older give money to their adult children while only about 12% get financial help from their offspring. The annual cost of a four-year public education has more than doubled over the last twenty years, while housing prices over the same period have more than tripled (Palmer). This trend has provided more wealth to the baby boomer generation, those born between 1946 and 1964, while at the same time increasing the difficulty of the next generations to gain their independence.
According to a report issued by the U.S. Census Bureau the percentage of young adult men living in their parents' home rose from 14% in 2005 to 19% in 2011 and the percentage of young adult women living at home rose...
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