My parents were married at 24 and lived in my mother’s parents’ home for five years. This was from 1944 to 1949.
No shame in it at all. Why should perfectly good living space go to waste, just for the sake of conforming to a convention that everyone must have his own house?
We are in a Depression, and in a Depression, people have to make do. When we have an American in the White House again, maybe we will get out of the Depression.
Same with my parents. They were married in 1949 and lived for awhile w/my grandparents. Then they lived in an apartment in my grandfather’s business, rent was free but they had do work(in addition to their regular jobs) in exchange for the free rent.
I feel for kids today. Our son has an advanced degree, he has a good job, pays his bills, lives on his own, but the pay compared to salaries in the near past is low. Plenty to pay his way, but as I said, he has the weight of a Bachelors and Masters degree.
Big companies in our town are taking advantage of the glut of workers and paying pretty low salaries which is just supply and demand playing out in our economy. I saw a couple ads last week for accountants at major firms and they were paying $35,000...I don’t know what a “normal” salary for that field is, but that seemed low.
So moving back in w/parents, might be the wise thing to do for some of these kids...but that doesn’t mean the parents should give them a free ride. I guarantee the last thing a 20 something kid wants to do is live with their parents.