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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) by Francis on Friday November 13 2015, @08:29PM
That's also why failing to launch and boomerang homes are a thing. We've torn down damn near all the support that young adults used to get. As well as shipped as many jobs overseas as possible to make sure that employees can't afford to have nice things.
I'd venture that a goodly portion of those returning home aren't choosing to do so, so much as they can't afford to live a decent lifestyle on the low wages that have become the norm.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday November 13 2015, @11:28PM
That's also why failing to launch and boomerang homes are a thing.
That happened to me. I had trouble as an undergraduate (all self-inflicted, I assure you), and when I graduated, I didn't have an obvious place to go. It took about three years to stabilize my life to the point that I wasn't dependent on my parents.
As well as shipped as many jobs overseas as possible to make sure that employees can't afford to have nice things.
Well, what remedies would actually make that better rather than worse? For example, the recent proposal to raise minimum wage to $15 an hour would be a dagger in back for young adults who already have much higher unemployment rates.