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Category: boomerang kids
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They're back. And they like the living conditions. According to a recent Pew Research Center poll, 68% of young adults ages 18 to 34 who are living with their parents or have moved back in temporarily because of economic conditions say they are very satisfied with their family life. (Roughly a similar proportion–73%–who are not…
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In this downturned economy, young adults are vacationing more with mom and dad–and letting the old folks pick up the tab.
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When grown children–college age and just beyond–come home for the summer, parents are not dealing with full-blown and mature adults. Their kids are “emerging adults.”
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New Yorker commentary–visual and written–on college graduates who move back home.
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The latest stats are not out yet–the census moves slowly–but it will doubtless show that this Great Recession has created a migration of sorts: adult children moving back home. In 1970, less than 8 percent of adult children between the ages of 25 to 34 lived with parents. By 2000, that percent was at 10.5.…
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If your grown children and their children are moving back home–out of economic necessity or for a temporary but long-term visit–there are lots of challenges ahead. Here's a blog that's detailing how one family is working things out. I like the tone of it. Here's part of an opener to one recent entry: "When you…
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This isn't the first time I've posted links to newspaper, magazine or blog items on how to handle a return to the nest. But it is the first time I've seen the topic covered at length by no less a media than the New York Times. In true Times tradition, "When Fledglings Return to the…
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This just in from Great Britain. A survey by Selftrade of 2,000 Brits on fallout from the current economic downturn finds that "50% of British adults have been forced to make a ‘Plan B’ in the last year, as their lives have taken a surprise turn in a different direction. In 87% of these cases,…
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