Debbie Rohr lives with her husband and twin teenage sons in a well-tended three-bedroom home in Salinas.
The ranch-style house has a spacious kitchen that looks out on a yard filled with rosebushes. It’s a modest but comfortable house, the type that Rohr, 52, pictured for herself at this stage of life.
She just never imagined that it would be her childhood home, a return to a bedroom where she once hung posters of Olivia Newton-John and curled up with her beloved Mrs. Beasley doll.
Driven by economic necessity — Rohr has been chronically unemployed and her husband lost his job last year — she moved her family back home with her 77-year-old mother.
At a time when the still sluggish economy has sent a flood of jobless young adults back home, older people are quietly moving in with their parents at twice the rate of their younger counterparts.
For seven years through 2012, the number of Californians aged 50 to 64 who live in their parents’ homes swelled 67.6% to about 194,000, according to the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research and the Insight Center for Community Economic Development.
The jump is almost exclusively the result of financial hardship caused by the recession rather than for other reasons, such as the need to care for aging parents, said Steven P. Wallace, a UCLA professor of public health who crunched the data.
“The numbers are pretty amazing,” Wallace said. “It’s an age group that you normally think of as pretty financially stable. They’re mid-career. They may be thinking ahead toward retirement. They’ve got a nest egg going. And then all of a sudden...
And the over 80 are moving in with their children!!! House is getting full!!
Salinas is a Mexican thug show.
Every weekend is punctuated by knifings, shootings, fights, etc.
Blue collar jobs are dominated by illegals and “Mexican-Americans” who make sure no palefaces either get hired or work on a crew for very long.
And people like Ms. Rohr are the ones who voted for the politicians that did this to them and continue to do it to them. Like lemmings the blithering idiot bliss ninnies of California still vote for screaming Leftist rats.
No sympathy.
The Right needs to connect the dots and make it plain.
Obama’s brave new world.
So ‘Debbie’ decided she’s had enough and moved in to her inheritance a few years early. Plus, it’s a lot easier to deep freeze the bodies for a few years and keep collecting them SS checks, etc. until it gets near time you get found out. Then you can thaw them out real good and then call the amberlamps like they keeled over just now.
And this is a bad thing how? Fifty percent of people 85 and older have Alzheimer’s. Lots of people can’t afford a full time caregiver like my parents have, both under 85 and both with Alzheimer’s. Thank Gd these older children love them enough to move back in with them and return the love they were given.
Many elderly do have money or a solid house. Family should share their resources. And their loving care. I heard that one of my neighbors has 4 generations in their home. Gd bless them.
I don’t see a problems with this. It can be family taking care of family. Mom needs help and so do the kids and grand kids. I would rather see family helping than my tax dollar.
I know plenty of people who stick their parents and aunts in subsidized housing while they own three and four bedroom homes. I am tired of subsidizing the middle class lazies too.
Employers have been relentless in laying off older employees to reduce average salary levels and contain healthcare costs. And the odds are not with a 50-someting or older professional trying to find another salaryman job before they age out of the market.
Where’s the pic of that little fancy-boy in his PJs with his cocoa?!?!
all part of getting people to live with less
the commie way
If they Voted for Obama or any Democrat for that matter, they will not even get a “smidgen” of sympathy from me.
If they didn’t, welcome to the club Comrades.
It happened a lot during the Great Depression when many in the urban areas lost it all - savings, homes, cars, jobs, etc. and were put out on the street. Many returned to the family farms of their parents or moved in with siblings until they could start over. People with strong families ties survived.
Having talked with survivors of that era, it was a terrible time. People lived “without” and “made do” with the most basic necessities of life until after the end of WWII.
There was no welfare safety net like we have today to fall back on. They learned to struggle with no job, no money, no food, no clothing, no shelter, or shortages of whatever until times got better. This period resulted in a lot of the government welfare programs we see today.
This is what is scary about today’s government welfare safety net. People expect it to always be there and sufficient to meet their survival needs. They are being lulled into a false sense of security. Each day more and more people are being added to the welfare rolls.
Our government should be encouraging people to get off the welfare rolls through tax breaks and other incentives. Instead, they are going in the other direction.
Potentially these programs could be overwhelmed in another economic crisis or nationwide disaster and might fail completely. And where would these people go and what would they do if they had to survive another Great Depression?
Do they have strong family ties or other ways to survive? I doubt if family ties would be of much use since entire generations of families are now dependent on government welfare. Depending on the government could be fatal.
Older children moving back into their elderly parents home is definitely a sign the economy is failing. But is it an early warning that government welfare programs are not achieving their intended purpose and are starting to fail?