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More Young Adults are 'Failing to Launch' or 'Boomerang Home'

posted by martyb on Friday November 13 2015, @02:48PM   
from the mom's-basement dept.

AnonTechie writes:

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

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• Re:Another symptom of the same problem Re:Another symptom of the same problem (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 14 2015, @01:02AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 14 2015, @01:02AM (#262940)

  Some other factors I can think of:

  • The rent is too damn high. There are so many "luxury condos" being stood up by both small-scale speculators, as well as large-scale ones like Avalon, which drive up the average rent in cities and towns.
  • Buying a house is too expensive, now that you have to have 20% upfront to get a loan, and house prices are rising in yet another bubble (not quite as outlandish as the 2004-2007 bubble, but it's approaching that rate).
  • The converse of number 5 above also applies, to an extent: ageism. Tech companies are starting to look at applicants who are 30 to 35 years old as "too old", because they don't fit the Silly Valley stereotype of "disruptive innovative Stanford dropout". This is becoming particularly pervasive in Fortune 500 companies, who are desperately trying to masquerade a "startup attitude" to freshen around the cobwebs and Windows XP workstations. In some cases, it's possible for an applicant to simultaneously "not have enough experience", AND "be too old".

  Add to all of this the feckless indifference of a government too comatose and octogenarian to understand how to regulate a 21st Century country. They're still gushing about TPP, which tries (and fails) to solve problems from 20 years ago, which were brought about as aftershocks from NAFTA. It makes me want to emigrate, "retire" prior to reaching 40 years old, and live out the rest of my days in a way that ensures I won't have to worry about saving for a "real retirement"... because I'll end up dying working anyway.

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• Re:Another symptom of the same problem (Score: 2) by Thexalon on Saturday November 14 2015, @02:14PM

  by Thexalon (636) on Saturday November 14 2015, @02:14PM (#263250)

  The thing is, if your income had kept pace with productivity, then the rent wouldn't be too damn high, because you could afford to pay it and/or save money for a house.

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