You Can Go Home Again: More Young Americans Living With Parents

Living with a parent is the most common living arrangement for 18- to 34-year-olds in the United States, the first time on record that that has been the case, according to the Pew Research Center. “In 2014, for the first time in more than 130 years, adults ages 18 to 34 were slightly more likely to be living in their parents’ home than they were to be living with a spouse or partner in their own household,” the center said in a report released May 24. By 2014, 32.1 percent of young adults were living in the home of their parent or parents. That was greater than the 31.6 percent of young adults living with a spouse or partner in their own household. Fourteen percent of adults 18 to 34 headed a household in which they lived alone, were a single parent or lived with one or more roommates. And the remaining 22 percent lived in the home of another family member, a non-relative or in a group living arrangement, such as college dormitories. The decline in the proportion of young Americans forming a household with a romantic partner is largely propelling this shift in living arrangements, the report said. “Dating back to 1880, the most common living arrangement among young adults has been living with a romantic partner, whether a spouse or a significant other. This type of arrangement peaked around 1960, when 62% of the nation’s 18- to 34-year-olds were living with a spouse or partner in their own household, and only one-in-five were living with their pa...
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