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The study, conducted by researchers at the University of Melbourne, concluded that the changing nature of family living situations often led to avoidable conflict. Associate Professor Cassandra Szoeke and Katherine Burn, from the University's Faculty of Medicine, Health and Dentistry Sciences, examined both 'boomerang kids' (those who return home) and 'failure to launch' kids (those who never left).
The project reviewed 20 studies involving 20 million people worldwide was published in Maturitas. The research shows:
The shifting economic climate and changes in social norms were driving the phenomenon of kids staying at home for longer.
The main reasons for young adults choosing to remain at home were for stability and additional support while they transition to university or employment.
Divorce, unemployment and health problems often led to children returning. This return under negative circumstances can heavily impact on the wellbeing of everyone in the household.
Parents who are well-educated, married and well-off tend to have children who stay home longer, whereas children who grow up in households with a single parent, or step-parent, or didn't finish high school, tend to leave early.
http://phys.org/news/2015-11-young-adults-boomerang-home.html
[Also Covered By]: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-11/uom-mya111115.php
(Score: -1, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday November 13 2015, @03:01PM
This would be because they are forced to learn self-reliance early on, so they grow up to be adults instead of sniveling little pussies.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by DutchUncle on Friday November 13 2015, @03:27PM
Or, they grow up desperate to leave, or with bad relationships, rather than being comfortable with sharing space (both emotionally and physically). Being forced into self-reliance too early is not necessarily good - for example my mother didn't leave her single-parent home, she stayed in the same apartment while my GRANDmother left to a state where my grandfather's abandonment was grounds for divorce. OTOH having familial support through education and job start does not necessarily mean people are sniveling little pussies. I'm sure you can show bad examples of overcoddling - I know some too - but "sending people out well equipped and provisioned" sounds like a reasonable goal.
(Score: 4, Informative) by SanityCheck on Friday November 13 2015, @03:57PM
I must side with you over GP. I too left at a young age, even thou I was far from ready because of difficult home life. The issues here are far from one-dimensional. They are very complex.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 13 2015, @05:37PM
It sounds like the GP is bitter and probably never calls his parents, I've noticed this trend among those who "got kicked out or fled at 18" and usually their parents were rather abusing as well. They also tended not to amount to much in the long run either, while those who got to stay home for longer went on to be highly educated with well paying jobs or their own businesses.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 13 2015, @08:48PM
I've noticed this trend
Please come up with evidence, not anecdotes.
their parents were rather abusing
Bad people exist in the world, and they might be your parents, and its not your fault if they are.
while those who got to stay home for longer went on to be highly educated with well paying jobs or their own businesses
Ok, here's my anecdote:
I know people who stayed at home longer who did not get higher education, no skills and started businesses with their parents' money that failed.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by PiMuNu on Friday November 13 2015, @03:29PM
> instead of sniveling little pussies.
Do people really write that sort of stuff? I mean is this guy a real person or some sort of ridiculous hollywood script?
(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 13 2015, @03:57PM
That's Dr. Ben Carson.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 13 2015, @03:38PM
Shut up. Not everyone who stays home is a pussy. Most people who left home left because their home life was shit or there wasn't much of a home to begin with. Not many people in those conditions get very far in life. From there it was the military or one shit job after another. The military people used the GI bill to the fullest and went to college or vocational school. So in essence, the military was simply an extension to living at home and being cared for.
And lets be honest here. Kids who stay home longer with well educated parents aren't pussies. They are smart. The family works together to ensure the kids are educated, obtain a good job and save money. Their foundation is strong.
You just sound butt hurt you didn't get the same chance so you insult them.
Kids who never left? The parents don't give a fuck about them.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday November 13 2015, @08:57PM
No, not everyone, just most of them. At 18 you are an adult and should be acting like one. That means supporting yourself not mooching off the rents, no matter how much they're willing. Anyone costing their parents money after their 18th birthday gets zero respect from me as a human being.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 13 2015, @04:03PM
> This would be because they are forced to learn self-reliance early on, so they grow up to be adults instead of sniveling little pussies.
Well, that's the most complete and nuanced analysis of the phenomenon that I've ever seen. Perhaps as a society, we can call these issues settled and move on to the next problem in queue.
(Score: 2) by mmcmonster on Friday November 13 2015, @04:20PM
Staying with parents into your early 20s is not a sign of weakness.
If anything, it's a sign of strength in family relationships. If your bonds with your parents are weak, you will leave early to strike out on your own. If you have strong family bonds, you will stay with your parents a bit longer. Both to save up money to get a better "launch" a few years later as well as to help them out while you are with them (delaying their "empty nest syndrome").
I effectively stayed with my parents until I was married. The last few years I technically had my own place (college dorm and small apartment elsewhere) but came home every weekend.
It was a good transition for both myself and my parents. When I got married my parents had time to adjust to me not being there all the time and my wife was used to me being with the parents the occasional weekend, and was coming with me for those weekend trips as well.
That being said, with the job market as it is, I would certainly expect my kids to delay moving out until they could settle themselves in with a good job and marriage. Just like I did.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 13 2015, @04:28PM
Marriage is an inevitability, is it?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 13 2015, @08:22PM
For the vast majority, yes.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by slinches on Friday November 13 2015, @05:25PM
While agree that staying at home part way through college or returning briefly isn't necessarily a sign of weakness, jumping straight from your childhood home into starting your own family skips an important developmental step. I think everyone should live on their own for at least a short time (even just 6 months is probably enough). Living without others around and having the freedom of complete autonomy, but the responsibility to do everything for yourself exposes a lot bad habits that you might not realize you had otherwise. Then you can go back into shared living arrangements with a better appreciation of what you're getting out of the deal and what you're giving up.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 13 2015, @09:01PM
Living without others around and having the freedom of complete autonomy
Many people will never want to have others around after they're spoiled by autonomy and freedom.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday November 13 2015, @04:58PM
"Becky, what do you want to be when you grow up?"
"I'm going to be a Google social engineer!"
"Johnny, how about you?"
"I want to be a policeman, so I can steal Becky's lunch!"
"And, you Ed?"
"I don't want to grow up. I'm remodeling my Mom's basement for gaming, and I'm learning the fastest route to the corner store so I can stock up on Cheeto's and Mountain Dew in the minimum amount of time."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 13 2015, @07:15PM
"I don't want to grow up. I'm remodeling my Mom's basement for gaming, and I'm learning the fastest route to the corner store so I can stock up on Cheeto's and Mountain Dew in the minimum amount of time."
That is so 1956. Nowadays you program your drone to go and get it for you. You cant waste precious WoW time. Geeze.
(Score: 2) by vux984 on Friday November 13 2015, @07:37PM
That is so 1956. Nowadays you program your drone to go and get it for you. You cant waste precious WoW time. Geeze.
Someone at amazon already programmed the drones, I just have to place the order. And as for the precious WoW time, meh, my bots mostly play without me anyway; so I've got plenty of time.
I should ask Mr. Spacely for a raise, I've been working really hard, and Rosie needs an oil change.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Francis on Friday November 13 2015, @08:20PM
Not really, you don't seriously think that those folks actually want to be living with their parents, do you? The thing that's changed is that housing is more expensive and jobs pay less than they used to. Things like healthcare are more expensive than they used to be and for a lot of people their own car or other transportation is necessary to get to work.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 13 2015, @09:16PM
you don't seriously think that those folks actually want to be living with their parents, do you
They are pussies (as GP said), that's why. RL is too difficult for them and they want a job appointment letter before they even leave their parents house.
Housing was always expensive, but you had to make it. Others are living in the same world as you. If they can, why can't you?
Some people are too soft these days and almost always have rich parents (of no fault of their own) and the world owes them a lot, doesn't it? So unless they are given a decent house to live in, a nice car to drive, someone to do the chores and do their laundry, and a fat paycheck, they are not moving out.
(Score: 1) by Francis on Friday November 13 2015, @09:27PM
Because income is distributed evenly amongst the various jobs?
Oh, wait, no it's not. The good jobs that pay well and have excellent benefits are too limited for everybody to have. Otherwise, everybody would have them.