Why more adults age 26 to 41 are living with their parents

It’s been found one in four people age 26 to 41, live with their parents.

[P.]

People forget that a lot of people have to move back home because their parents are ill and need caregiving and they cannot afford to be put in a long-term care facility!

[Sara-rgd]

if salaries kept up with rent, id be out by now.

[RokushoHasashi]

Living with family is cheaper than living on your own because rent is too damn expensive!!

[lazarusblackwell]

I see nothing wrong with living with your family if you have enough room.

You help them and they help you.

Its a community and security.

[zoozyg]

I’d rather be with my parents then crying alone in a couch

[sir_jerhyn]

I'm 27 and I still live with my folks. Hell, I take care of them and pay some bills for them!

[pimpnamedslickback]

Literally everywhere else on earth you live at home with your parents until you can afford to move out. This idea that you need to go into greater debt and struggle to show "independent" is stupid

[sarahsimpkins]

Because the cost of living is expensive.
Its not like how it was 20 years ago.

[joyceadegboyega]

During these hard times I don't think that it is a bad idea living with your parents at all .

[SenorGuzman]

If society normalizes this, it is a way to fight the housing market. Stick the middle finger to rising rents and help your family.

[redcronojm]

As long as your working a job, paying your parents your share of rent or mortgage. No shame living with your parents for that time being.

[novaprime]

I barely saw my Mom since my house is in different town. Last July, she's passed away, now me with my wife and my daughter decide to move in my father house.

[bellalexanneanna]

In asia we live with parents as long as you are single to take care of your granparents or help your parents not send them in a facility taken care by carers. Besides life is short. I dont understant why leaving your parents house is so exciting unless you will be married or live in another place for work. You never know when will you last see your parents.

[lurkingarachnid]

THERE NOTHING WRONG WITH IT, VERY COMMON IN ASIA AND THE MIDDLE EAST. AND THIS IS HOW PEOPLE USE TO LIVE, IN THE SAME HOUSE IN EXTENDED FAMILY

[cokedude]

I love living with my mom and I'll always be there with/for her forever!

[diamondinthesky]

I mean have you seen the prices of rent and of houses in current times?
It's easy to tell someone to just get out and by a house or rent an apartment.
It's harder when you're the one actually trying to do it.

[aleczavala]

I was raised by Mexican immigrants. When my 18th birthday was approaching and I asked them on advice about moving out, they laughed in my face! They asked me where I got that idea from and when I told them that I got it from my white friends, they laughed again!

In our culture, kids can stay with their parents for however long they need as long as they’re not married. Once they’re married, it’s a different story. I have a few aunts and uncles who remained single and they lived with my grandparents up until they died. In fact, it’s been well over a decade since my grandparents passed away and my aunts and uncle still live in my grandparents’ house. The one time my uncle tried to get a place of his own, my grandmother got on her knees and begged him not to leave, where most American parents can’t wait to kick out their kids the moment they turn 18!

[limwaik]

And take care parents too. 👍 I don’t care people judged of adults still living with parents. As long lives and true loves.

[ChrisSportsfan]

Already been told by my parents that I don’t have to leave until I get married. I pay my share to them and also am saving for the future. Rent is unaffordable for me.

[travelingdude]

I’m over 40 with a Master’s degree in IT living with my parents and I pay them rent and help out. That said, I would much rather have my own place to be fully independent and happier the way I want to be. For me, it’s just economics. I’ve travelled all over the world on all six continents by myself plus have visited all 50 US states, the Caribbean and other places. I like being fully on my own much better.