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 bzipitidoo on Friday November 13 2015, @11:25PM
Mowing is of questionable value anyway. Why do we have this obsession with keeping the grass short? I've heard that it's to make it impossible for snakes to hide in the grass. Also, to cut down on the fire hazard. Yet there is another way to "mow" the grass: herbivores. Turn goats or cows loose on the lawn and they'll graze it nice and short. They'll graze it too short if they're overcrowded.
The advent of the power mower enabled us to indulge this obsession, and without any icky poop piles in the yard. It's not at all clear that this is an advance. Maybe more sanitary to keep us away from cow poop, or maybe not, as lack of exposure to such may be causing us to have more allergies. A silver lining in that the immediate future should have more career opportunities for allergists?
(Score: 2) by Pino P on Saturday November 14 2015, @12:10AM
Why do we have this obsession with keeping the grass short? I've heard that it's to make it impossible for snakes to hide in the grass. Also, to cut down on the fire hazard.
Interesting question. A bit of Google searching later (start with grass height law) produced an article by Lisa Goldberg [baltimoresun.com], which states that your snake hypothesis isn't far off:
Turn goats or cows loose on the lawn and they'll graze it nice and short. [...] The advent of the power mower enabled us to indulge this obsession, and without any icky poop piles in the yard.
Perhaps the answer is to encourage city dwellers to keep miniature goats, which I'm told don't poop any more than a dog does.