In the U.S. and abroad, more young adults are living with their parents

[dixiegrrrrl]

Interesting maps and chart at the link

More young adults in the U.S. are living with their parents than at any time since around 1940, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of census data. This trend is not, as you might assume, solely a consequence of the 2007-09 Great Recession, nor is it limited to the U.S.

Across much of the developed world, researchers have noted that more young adults are living at their parents’ homes for longer periods – in some cases because they never left, in others because they moved back after being on their own in college or the working world.

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/05/24/in-the-u-s-and-abroad-more-young-adults-are-living-with-their-parents/

[Jackie Wilson Said]

1. The Koch Bros etal believe working Americans have it too good now, so

if they get their way, i.e. republicanism, you all are really fucked.

[lunamagica]

2. Around the world the custom is for children to live with parents until they get married

[Rex]

3. They have to, half the wealth in the world is now owned by just 80 families.

Yet at the same time, the cost of living skyrocketed and workers wages went stagnant for decades.

[Thinkingabout]

4. I would venture to say some still wants the same or better than what their parents have.

I started out with very little, gathered items over time and learned I could only what I could afford myself.

I remember a conversation I had with my mom, did not like the position I had, and she told me I could come home and live but she did not know what I was going to do when my parents would not be around to take care of me. I knew that meant there would not be any money, well went right back to work so I would be able to provide for myself.

[redstateblues]

5. Be careful. On DU they consider you a right winger for mentioning anything

That smacks of promoting personal responsibility

[Thinkingabout]

6. Yes, I know this, one day we will not be here take care of them, no one

Working to pay FICA and therec will not be any money for Medicare either.

[L. Coyote]

7. Rents are higher than ever, people cannot afford it.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

8. The term young adult applies to people as old as 34?

I always thought that term referred to teenagers and people in their early twenties.

[bhikkhu]

9. College attendance rates are at a record high

around 70%, while many in college, as always, find that if they can live at home and study rather than juggle college and work they do better in school. The trend in the OP mirrors the trend in college attendance, and the decline of the labor participation rate among young people. Its a bit of a package deal, a change in behavior not unexpected (or unwelcome) in an increasingly complex and education-intensive employment market.

Of course, the cost of education is likely a contributing factor as well. Clinton and Sanders both have good plans for positive changes there, along the lines of what more advanced European governments have done for years.