More Young Adults Are Living With Parents
By: VERTEXNews/Newsroom Solutions
Updated: November 4, 2011
The number of young adults living with their parents has jumped over the last six years. The Census Bureau reports that nearly one in five young men ages 25 to 34 now lives with his parents.
Women of the same age fare better.
Only one in ten lives with her parents.
Those figures are up from 2005, when 14 percent of young men and eight percent of young women lived at home.
Officials note that the increase began before the onset of the latest recession and has continued through it.
The study also found that about two-thirds of children under the age of 18 live with two parents.
Of the nearly 68-million opposite-sex couples living together, nearly 90 percent are married.
Married couples with children now make up only one in five U.S. households, which is about half what it was in 1970.
(Copyright 2011 by VERTEXNews/Newsroom Solutions)
Women of the same age fare better.
Only one in ten lives with her parents.
Those figures are up from 2005, when 14 percent of young men and eight percent of young women lived at home.
Officials note that the increase began before the onset of the latest recession and has continued through it.
The study also found that about two-thirds of children under the age of 18 live with two parents.
Of the nearly 68-million opposite-sex couples living together, nearly 90 percent are married.
Married couples with children now make up only one in five U.S. households, which is about half what it was in 1970.
(Copyright 2011 by VERTEXNews/Newsroom Solutions)
