Posted on 04/21/2014 2:30:54 PM PDT by thackney
The number of Californians 50 to 64 who live in their parents' homes has surged in recent years, reflecting the grim economic aftermath of the Great Recession.
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...
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This is one 81 year old who would never live with her kids and I sold my big house and bought a condo so they couldn’t live with me.
Call me selfish and cruel, I don’t care.
I enjoy my life.
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I have a friend of a similar demographic, though he’s single, who moved back home—and actually confided that he’d be in trouble now without his father’s social security income. Yikes!
Or, you could be like my husband and I. My mom lives in a little house right here on our property that we built for her. We pay her electricity and water bills. She pays no rent. I take her to her doctor appointments, shopping, etc. She’ll be 80 this year and I’m glad we can do it. AND, we do this all on my hubbys income. I stay home, take care of her, and make sure my 16 year old son is on top of his on-line schooling everyday. Luckily, no Alzheimers. She has a number of malady’s, but still takes care of herself mostly. Does her own cooking, laundry, cleaning, etc. I couldn’t imagine putting her in a home.
A good study of world culture would be who is honoring their parents and taking care of them. I could probably do it online.
You know? I’m kinda Jonesing on that house my daughter and her husband have. NICE! With a pool I loaned them the bucks for......I’d be in heaven if they let me move in. I’d be more than willing to help out with my SS - the LONGER the better.
I think they’ll let me do it, but it’s iffy for the wife, so that’s a little touchy right now. If it ever happens, I’ll probably have to buy the deep freezer! :o)
I wish there were rules to protect the neighbors. I live in a nice older neighborhood. These houses don't have the electircal systems to accomomdate two or three generations and the greater amount of electricity everyone uses today. There are driveways and garages, but in more cases not to accomodate more than three cars without being really ugly. It seems there should be some limits to how many people can live in one house. It's a health and safety issue.
Ya think families moving in together are somehow isolated to Salinas or CA?
Do a search...This trend is rapidly increasing all over the country and has been for over a decade now.
In fact, so much so, builders are now designing multinational homes.
And Pajama Boy is living in the basement.
Er multi-generational homes...
Nice to see that someone agrees with me-I’d give anything to have my mom alive and right here with me-most of my family lives in multigenerational homes, especially the ranchers. If it all goes to hell, my bro and his family are welcome with me, too-and I don’t think it is an ethnic thing with us-families living on one property or in one house was common until the early 20th century. I think it is the best way to BE a family...
Most people will not be able to afford to do that-assuming they want to-the way things are going.
no healhcare no nursing homes. interesting study here:
http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Paper/12398133.aspx
“Facing a rapid ageing of their population, many countries are in the process of health and social care reforms.” = death panels?
All hope is lost. Everyone already knows about the dots.
Bottom line, the takers outnumber the makers.
I live in the country with the others like me, so no one’s cars and driveways are anyone else’s business, so I can’t relate to that-but I can speak to the electricity issue-as for the electrical systems-what is the deal-is the added use causing fires or outages? A competent electrician can always install more outlets and breakers in a home, if needed-he just needs to bring more power from the pole. It isn’t like there is only a finite amount available...
“No sympathy.”
Agreed
I will not buy products from stores or companies based in California.
I will not transit through airports in California.
I will not help them in the event of a natural disaster or terrorist attack.
Yeah a neighbor with three generations living there burned down their house except for the brick walls. It does affect me....everyone’s homeowner’s insurance went up.
If they “burned down their house” was it on purpose? If it was just an electrical fire, that crap happens everywhere, and for all sorts of reasons-I got struck by lightening that came through the stereo in my house years ago, but no fire...
If you’re concerned, you should call a licensed electrician and have the power from the pole to your home checked, and it isn’t costly. You can’t dictate how much power your neighbors have/use-thank God-but you can be safe rather than have an accident happen. There should be enough power from that pole to run a B&B with the right number of breakers and outlets in your home.
I can’t imagine insurance going up over a neighbor’s fire-that sounds like REAL discrimination, rather than the fake kind we always hear about...
Oops-I just saw that you’re from Massachusetts-I know the insurance is radically different from here-the rating of neighborhoods homeowner insurance is based on property crimes-theft, vandalism, arson-accidents don’t count, except to the individual homeowner they happen to...
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.
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