Posted on 11/11/2015 4:48:22 PM PST by rickmichaels
The percentage of young women living at home with parents or relatives has risen to its highest level since 1940 as more millennial women put off marriage, attend college and face high living expenses.
A Pew Research Center analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data found that 36.4 per cent of women between the ages 18 and 34 lived with parents or relatives in 2014, the most since at least 1940, when 36.2 per cent lived with family.
It is a very different world for women now, though, despite the "return to the past, statistically speaking," says Richard Fry, a senior economist at Pew.
Fry says young women are staying home now because they are they are half as likely to be married as they were 1940 and much more likely to be college-educated. Other economic forces, such as increasing student debt, higher living costs and economic uncertainty, are also playing a role.
Casey Ballard was living away from home in Portland, Oregon, but rent ate up roughly two-thirds of her paycheque and she was ready for a career change. A September move back with family in California allowed her to try out teaching as a substitute and to pursue teaching full-time.
"There was that element of frustration and feeling like a failure," she says about returning home. "But then the logical side of me kicked in and said 'It's just fiscally responsible."'
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Every special snowflake needs a place to call home.
We have new indefinitely put off adulthood with this generation. Hey, kids, don’t forget to adorn mom’s basement with your “participation” trophies.
Helicopter parents are now boomerang parents.
Reap what ye sew.
Rule for all of our children (six total, five girls one boy). At 18 it’s either college, military, convent, seminary or apartment. Time to be an adult. So far first three to leave the nest are married and successful, the three still at home are not 18 yet. All of our children were/are homeschooled and the usually graduate high school and have a two year degree at 18, then finish the next two years, all while working part-time to full-time. We are truly blessed and see the light at the end of the tunnel :)
That’s cause the boys have turned into sissy’s!!
When mom and dad let you bring men home to have sex with, when they let you lay about on their health insurance until 28, 30 in Ohio and some other states. When you need someone to watch your bastard baby so you can go to Starbucks for a shift or the club for a quickie hook up, why not live at home. The rent is cheap.
War on women!
I have one 19 year old living at home going to community college. She said she wasn’t ready to leave home and she didnt know what to major in. I think it’s been a good choice for her.
I wish my 21 year old would have done the same. We’ve spent a ton on his education and he doesn’t like his major. Ugh. He’s my immature one. He also is burned out with school. Last semester was horrible for him when he saw his roommate attempt suicide.
I have another 19 year old that got a full tuition scholarship to college. It’s her first semester in college and she seems to be doing well.
Declining wages and low paying jobs. It is hard to pay the rent and other bills even if you have a job.
I don’t blame guys for not getting married now.Divorce court is filled with radical feminists and you don’t have a chance if your a guy. They chewed me up and spit me out...destroyed my life.
women judges, women lawyers..I don’t mean to whine but I got railroaded.
I don’t consider what is being produced by most parents these days as either men r women. They are over grown children.
Well done, sir.
Well done, sir.
I don’t understand.
When I was 16, I WANTED to leave home and was counting down the days that I would be a legal adult. I enlisted in the Marine Corps at age 17 under the DEP program and counted down the days I would report to Parris Island and start living my own life.
I don’t get young people today wanting to live with their parents. My own children got out on their own pretty quickly and are the better for it.
Declining wages and low paying jobs. It is hard to pay the rent and other bills even if you have a job.
I don’t get young people today wanting to live with their parents. My own children got out on their own pretty quickly and are the better for it.
Why would a guy get married...the cows are not only giving milk away for free, you hardly have to even feed them or take them out.
>>When I was 16, I WANTED to leave home and was counting down the days that I would be a legal adult. I enlisted in the Marine Corps at age 17 under the DEP program and counted down the days I would report to Parris Island and start living my own life.<<
You learned, as did all our generation (even the hippies) to be self-dependent and independent. The idea of being dependent on our parents was pretty much unthinkable (except the very rich).
This generation has their parents going to job interviews with them. They are bubble-wrapped from birth.
This is not just millenials but their parents (Gen X? Kind of hard to define) who were also bubble-wrapped.
#3 “Well, Everyone’s home life is unsatisfying. If it wasn’t people would live with their parents forever!”
Emilio Estevez As Andrew Clark in ‘The Breakfast Club’ 1985.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sH5gEw3g0c
>>I have one 19 year old living at home going to community college. She said she wasn’t ready to leave home and she didnt know what to major in. I think it’s been a good choice for her.
I wish my 21 year old would have done the same. We’ve spent a ton on his education and he doesn’t like his major. Ugh. He’s my immature one. He also is burned out with school. <<
Helicopter much?
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