I had this exact discussion with my coworkers 2 weeks ago.
The is no longer the societal stigma attached to adult children, who can afford to live on their own, still living with their parents.
And I think that changed within the last 10 years or so.
And it’s good for security purposes, too.
I don’t think there was ever that much stigma attached to adult children who could afford to live on their own living with their parents if they did as young people used to do and paid their part of the bills, a lot of parents have benefitted by having that spare room occupied by an offspring who made their lives easier. Once it was even common for three generations to live in one house and many found it a great blessing to live out their lives with their grandchildren or even great grandchildren in the same house with them but they weren’t expected to support the whole infernal brood forever.
The problem now is all the adult children who expect their parents to keep supporting them until they marry at thirty three and even after they move to their own home and have children to support.
Children used to be regarded as assets, now they are mainly liabilities.
Has there ever been a stigma attached to adult children living in their family home?
In my family and the area I grew up in, it was normal, expected, that one would live at home until one married. My husband didn’t grow up in a close family so he succeeded in getting as far as way as possible from them (he was barely home as a teen and once he left for college, he never went back).
And I’m talking about the 70s and 80s so it’s decades ago and not something new. And, it was normal back in the 60s, 50s, 40s, 30s from what my parents told me. It’s new to move out of the family home prior to marriage. It wasn’t happening in Philly back during the Depression or WWII or thereafter. Children stayed/lived in the family home until marriage. At least where I came from. My husband, they moved out as soon as possible (late 80s).
isn't America very different from most of the world in that young adults don't live at home?....most of the world has entire families living together for the greater good..