<story><title>The majority of 18- to 29-year-olds in the US are now living with their parents</title><url>https://www.axios.com/working-from-parents-home-82414f13-156f-43c2-aafa-733bd7541146.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>munificent</author><text>I really love the quote at the end:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt; I&amp;#x27;m a dad who is happy to have his daughter and fiancé living with me. They pay the utilities and make me nice meals, and it makes it a lot less lonely here. ... I like the multi-generational thing. I know it won&amp;#x27;t last forever, but it makes life better for now.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s so easy to get into that cold statistical mindset about these large-scale trends, but it&amp;#x27;s good to remember that these statistics are the aggregation of a large number of very human stories.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kelnos</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s also useful to note that the &amp;quot;nuclear family&amp;quot; is a very Western thing, and the US takes it to an extreme.  In other parts of the world it&amp;#x27;s &lt;i&gt;abnormal&lt;/i&gt; for adults in their 20s to be living anywhere but with their parents, often even with a fiance or new spouse in the mix.&lt;p&gt;The idea that having a multi-generational household means that the younger members haven&amp;#x27;t &amp;quot;grown up&amp;quot; and need to &amp;quot;learn to live on their own&amp;quot; is a completely manufactured attitude.  I think many American families would have much stronger, more healthy inter-generational relationships if we lived together (at least for a bit) as adults.  As it is now, most US kids leave home just when they&amp;#x27;re starting to be able to meaningfully contribute to the household as equals.&lt;p&gt;(Having said that, I definitely feel the pull of childhood and societal expectations.  When I was a new adult I was &lt;i&gt;thrilled&lt;/i&gt; to be out of my parents&amp;#x27; house, and could never have imagined moving back there.  I&amp;#x27;m nearly 40 now, and thinking about the possibility of living in my parents&amp;#x27; house during my 20s still feels weird to me.)</text></comment>
<story><title>The majority of 18- to 29-year-olds in the US are now living with their parents</title><url>https://www.axios.com/working-from-parents-home-82414f13-156f-43c2-aafa-733bd7541146.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>munificent</author><text>I really love the quote at the end:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt; I&amp;#x27;m a dad who is happy to have his daughter and fiancé living with me. They pay the utilities and make me nice meals, and it makes it a lot less lonely here. ... I like the multi-generational thing. I know it won&amp;#x27;t last forever, but it makes life better for now.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s so easy to get into that cold statistical mindset about these large-scale trends, but it&amp;#x27;s good to remember that these statistics are the aggregation of a large number of very human stories.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tanilama</author><text>I agree.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t like what the title tries to suggest that living with your parents is something wrong&amp;#x2F;abnormal?&lt;p&gt;Why is that? I understand for many it is not a choice, but it doesn&amp;#x27;t necessarily meaning people are suffering as a result.</text></comment>