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20 million people ages 18 to 34 live at house with their parents
2013 Mar 1, 3:34pm 11,835 views 27 comments
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JodyChunder
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2013 Mar 4, 1:44pm
OK, we're all dead in the long run. So that means we shouldn't get a degree, fund our IRAs, take care of our health? What a totally stupid statement and false dichotomy.
I see it more as a friendly reminder of the finiteness of things -- not a blank check for fucking-off. It suggests that one should try to pursue happiness in the meantime, without slavishly adhering to role and schematic and uniform desires/worries. I think more people need to take a moment to reflect on these themes.
According to 2008 Census figures, 20 million people ages 18 to 34 live at home with their parents -- 30 percent of that age group.
30% sounds familiar. In this age group, 30% have no income, 40% get by on minimum wage and only 30 % have a job with the means to buy a house, buy a new car, or any chance of having a middle class marriage and family.
I moved out when I was 17, I know 100s of people in this age group, I can only think of one person that lives with a parent and he might be 35 now
Dan8267
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2013 Mar 4, 11:45pm
I see it more as a friendly reminder of the finiteness of things -- not a blank check for fucking-off.
Yeah, but people always use it as an excuse for ignoring anything long-term, as if the short-term is all that matters.
I can only think of one person that lives with a parent and he might be 35 now
Now that your subjective reality has been made known, I'll go back and change the article to read: less than 1 million live with their parents because you know that only less than 1% of your friends live at home.
NDrLoR
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2013 Mar 5, 5:04am
Before the rise of the medical-industrial complex, most people remained mostly alert and functional until the end; this generation has visited too many elderly ancestors rotting alive in nursing homes
This brings to mind the recent story about the 87 year old lady living in the retirement community, not nursing home, who collapsed in a public area. An employee who was not a nurse called 911 which instructed her to begin CPR until the ambulance arrived. The employee refused, saying it was against the facility's policy. The 911 operator got into high gear asking if someone, anyone could begin CPR and the answer was still no. When the EMT arrived, the lady was dead. This seems cold-blooded at first, but when you think of it, people used to keel over and die and that was the end of it, especially at 87. The entire impulse today is to keep that heart beating, hang the cost. If they'd gotten her to the hospital, she would have gone onto life support for no telling how long and again at what cost and still probably had no decent quality of life in the meantime. When her daughter was finally reached, it turned out the lady had signed a "Do Not Resucitate" documenet and was perfectly satisfied with they way her mother had been treated.
curious2
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2013 Mar 5, 5:15am
This seems cold-blooded at first, but when you think of it, people used to fall down and die and that was the end of it, especially at 87. The entire impulse today is to keep that heart beating, hang the cost... When her daughter was finally reached, it turned out the lady had signed a "Do Not Resucitate" documenet and was perfectly satisfied with they way her mother had been treated.
The Guardian has a good article on this story. I don't think it's cold-blooded at all, and I personally carry an Advance Healthcare Directive saying I don't want their "help", but I seem to be in the minority on this. It's much more lucrative to keep the heart beating as long as possible. The medical-industrial complex has preyed upon people's fear of death the same way churches have always done, and now we are required via Obamacare to pay all we can afford for medical spending, even at the expense of other priorities that make more of a difference (safer cars, checking the house for radon, etc.). If having a healthy adult descendant at home spares the parents the eventual indignity and expense of nursing homes, they'll be glad of it.
I can only think of one person that lives with a parent and he might be 35 now
Now that your subjective reality has been made known, I'll go back and change the article to read: less than 1 million live with their parents because you know that only less than 1% of your friends live at home.
You wrote the article?
20 million people ages 18 to 34 live at house with their parents
if this is the case then dont expect rents fo go up anytime soon...18-34 are prime candidates as renters.. if your reducing the demand.. there is already too much supply.
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Seems that living at home under age 30 is up 45% - 65% depending on how you count it.--
20 million people ages 18 to 34 live at home with their parents
The current severe recession has pushed the extended family in the U.S. into a role well appreciated world wide -- an economic safety net.
The recession, loss of jobs and homes, high cost of living and growing debt are forcing adults to turn back to their parents for financial help. These boomerang kids, as sociologists and psychologists call them, are the latest change in the ever-shifting landscape of the American family. Intergenerational households -- parents, their children and sometimes grandparents -- were common in the 19th century. That changed early in the 20th century, when sons and daughters married younger -- sometimes in their teens -- and quickly moved out to create their own households. Then the Great Depression forced families back together. They once again grew apart during various lush economic periods that followed.
According to 2008 Census figures, 20 million people ages 18 to 34 live at home with their parents -- 30 percent of that age group. Researchers for the Network on Transitions to Adulthood, a group financed by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, found that since the 1970s, the number of twentysomethings living with their parents has increased by 50 percent. Of those who moved out of the house by age 22, 16 percent returned home before they hit 35, the researchers found.
Almost half of June 2008's college graduates had planned to move home after graduation, according to a survey by the employment Web site Monster.com.
David A. Morrison, president and founder of Twentysomething, a consulting firm that researches young adults, said the last time he noticed this phenomenon was during the recession that hit the country around 2001. But the severity of this economic downturn has forced children of all age groups, single or married, back home, he said. The dynamic is different.