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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 scruffybeard on Friday November 13 2015, @07:27PM
You are reading too much into my statement. There are some skills that can only be learned by doing. For most kids, once you have graduated high school and/or college, you should have all the basic skills necessary to live on your own. This is not to say that they won't need a lot of coaching, and perhaps a little financial help, but to still be at home, at say 24, because you "you can't afford to move out" is a bit of a cop-out in my book. Go find a grungy apartment, give up daily lattes and weekly pedicures, and start building your life.