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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: 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.