All three of my kids are still home, but productive. After graduation, they were expected to cover their share of the bills. We provide them a place to live, water, electricity, and internet for free. We cover their first 2 years of college and get them their first car. Everything else is on them (except Sunday breakfast, lunch, and dinner when I cook).
My 22 year old is finishing his last semester of college in December to complete his BA. He took a semester off to work on the Trump campaign. He works 30 hours a week while going to school full time. He’s getting married in January of 2023 and will be out of the house.
My 20 year old has a serious medical condition. Took time off between high school and college for major surgery and recovery. Starts college in the fall. After saving up several thousand dollars at his job, he took the summer off to focus on his health. I’m in no rush to push him out the door. I expect him to stay with us during and after college, so he can save for a down-payment on a home instead of wasting money on rent. Like my eldest, he covers his own car, insurance, phone, clothes, entertainment, and food.
My youngest is still in high school. I expect that he will either live with me forever or be fabulously successful. He has Asbergers, along with a ridiculously high IQ, and is a tech genius.
It helps that all 3 are kind, respectful, hardworking, live clean lives ( no drugs or alcohol), take care of chores and help around the house.
As long as my husband and I have a roof over our heads, our children will not be on the streets.
My adult son is still at home. He joined my husband in his business and remained at home to save up to buy a house for cash. He bought a fixer upper at the beginning of the pandemic and then the resulting supply chain issues and inflation delayed the fixing up for a year.
They are just now finishing the new siding and after that we start gutting the interior. So he will probably move out this fall.
My youngest daughter and sil are moving in with his parents because their rent is doubling on the first. So they plan to live in the basement for six months and buy a house next January. Which was always their original plan, but the rent doubling would eat up what they are currently saving every month.
I can’t park in my garage because it’s full of everyone’s furniture!
However, I suspect that productive adult children living with parents to achieve a financial goal aren’t the majority of the 52% still living at home or there wouldn’t be a labor shortage.