Posted on 07/17/2014 10:41:06 AM PDT by Hojczyk
A record 57 million Americans, or 18.1% of the population of the United States, lived in multi-generational family households in 2012, double the number who lived in such households in 1980.1
After three decades of steady but measured growth, the arrangement of having multiple generations together under one roof spiked during the Great Recession of 2007-2009 and has kept on growing in the post-recession period, albeit at a slower pace, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data.
Young adults ages 25 to 34 have been a major component of the growth in the population living with multiple generations since 1980—and especially since 2010. By 2012, roughly one-in-four of these young adults (23.6%) lived in multi-generational households, up from 18.7% in 2007 and 11% in 1980.
Young Adults Now More Likely Than Oldest Adults to Live in a Multi-generational HouseholdHistorically, the nation’s oldest Americans have been the age group most likely to live in multi-generational households. But in recent years, younger adults have surpassed older adults in this regard. In 2012, 22.7% of adults ages 85 and older lived in a multi-generational household, just shy of the 23.6% of adults ages 25 to 34 in the same situation.
(Excerpt) Read more at pewsocialtrends.org ...
‘Post-Recession’
We must be the biggest bunch of stupid saps who ever were left in charge of this wonderful country.
Wow. It took me awhile to unpack that headline.
Actually, it’s not the Millenials driving this but their parents, who allow the millenials to move home.
This has a cascading impact in allowing Millenials, who don’t have to worry about economics and finance, to vote their “social conscience” rather than economic issues.
Should read “Young Millenials that created the current economy by stupidly electing a traitor not once but twice are forced to move in with their conservative parents and hear I told you so for the next 3 years”
They better be glad we give them any mercy at all given the current situation.
Any parent who doesn’t tell their child in eighth grade that the child is paying for college and everything else after HS graduation, is contributing to this.
We visited a campus last week.
The kids were very polite, made an appt with the head of the dept, who, btw, showed up in sweaty basketball shorts, ten minutes late.
And when we got in the car to go home, there was nothing but, ‘what a horrible place’, ‘I’d be SO depressed here’
I asked for the tuition R&B charge only after, on the ride home. It’s not my business, I’m not paying, nor are the kids expected to manage or pay for our retirement.
$55,000.00
Fifty Five Thousand dollars per year.
The kids have to figure out how they’re supposed to pay for that, and why, that is, if it’ll be worth it.
At this point, they know what they want to study, and have had plenty of interaction with 23 to 26 year olds and their parents.
So they have been thinking about what to do as a profession and how to achieve it
Anything else is feeding into this major rip off.
If 18 year olds are too young to be smart consumers, they’re too young to consume.
If parents don’t care or know what they’re paying $300,000.00 for, then they should.
No. The voting age was reduced to 18 by adults and it was done during the active draft of kids too young to go to war in VN.
The voting age should be 21 again and people have control over that. They should not blame kids, certainly not if they’re not going to teach them.
I teach American lit to 9th graders They want to know the truth and hate hypocrisy more than anyone in the country.
It is an age where they are seeking the truth, it’s why HSers are targeted by the Marxists.
So, no, it’s parents
It’s not just parents feeding their minds 24/7. They are from home for 8 - qo hours if they are involved in extracurricular activities. Thea school feed it too. The parents can try to teach their kids and take them to church but in the end the kid chooses who he wants to listen to.
It’s not just parents feeding their minds 24/7. They are from home for 8 - 10 hours a day if they’re involved in extracurricular activities. The school feeds it too. The parents can try to teach their kids and take them to church but in the end the kid chooses who he wants to listen to.
Post recession? ‘Beam me up Scotty’, this must not be earth.
Parents give up the education of their children to government schools, bad media, boundless internet, social media, electronic communication, no prayer and friends chosen with no discernment, and examples of all of this from the parents themselves.
We give up our freedom when we say that’s it and throw up our hands and blame the democrats.
No
you hoped for a change... and you end up having to move back in with your parents because you cant get a job.
be careful what you ask for youth of America!
If they dont get a decent education and a good job, they will not be able to take care of you in your old age. And you WILL need to be taken care of eventually, everyone does.
Never left parenting to the schools and took them to church to instill strong moral values and integrity. Everyone of them lives in their own homes or apartments and work in management level positions for their employers.
Notifying an intelligent eighth grader that they will be responsible for their education has worked for the people in my circle.
We support everything through high school, motivate them to do well for scholarships.
They tell me when they need to go for SAT testing, they apply for scholarships and keep track of criteria for same, and they consider what they want to do when they get to adulthood, thus planning their education.
they like it a lot better than what they see from their peers who are under their parents’ thumbs ordering them what to do every day ‘because we are paying for college”
Heck, ask a kid which they prefer, doing it your way or theirs.
ideally, with kids being consumers, they’ll demand a good education at college, which they are not necessarily getting. THey are certainly not allowed free speech theire.
And Tuition rates demand that kids carry an average after college debt of $29,000.00.
give them a choice.
They can’t start families with that kind of debt.
Helping a kid in every onther way in supporting them at college, and refusing to pay that ridiculous sum is bad?
Not what I’ve seen.
We have kids here with $60,000.00 debt, having not planned well.
They’re not taking care of anyone else in retirement, they’ll have their won to manage after paying that back, if ever.
Know a pair of lawyers. $300,000.00 debt. they can’t even afford for one to stay home w kids. and they’re aware enough to know they’re paying 25% of every check for retirement of strangers with SS.
You, like most people I am assuming choose where you lived primarily because of the quality of the school district. You helped them with their home work, worked with yourself in your spare time, volunteered and got involved in every way to help them get the most out of their education. Heck, you might even have sacrificed and paid to send them to a private school or decided to forgo a career to home school them.
And now... within sight of the goal... you decide to just let whatever happens happen?
I will support my children in any and all education endeavors they choose to pursue all the way through graduate school if necessary. I didn't sacrifice, my parents and their parents didn't sacrifice, so they I could leave it all to chance at the last moment when it comes to my children.
Now. If they decided they wanted to just go party at school, or to get a degree in something useless like womens studies... then they are of course on their own to pursue such nonsense. But if they want to actually get a quality education that will advance them in life, I am there for them 100%
Not overpaying some liberal brainwashing institution to turn my child into a bumbling antijudeochristian anti American and slapping them with either too much debt or no retirement for us is not dropping the ball.
Teaching them the value of an education and a career and supporting them in gaining that is the job at hand.
These kids do not know what they’re getting into and parents know less about it.
$29,000.00 is the AVERAGE debt.
THAT’S dropping the ball.
Huh... I’m always on the other end of a new trend. I had my dad move in with me and my family 3 1/2 years ago. After the sewer line caved in and the foundation cracked, he couldn’t afford to keep the house I grew up in. And, as he was stubborn and didn’t talk to me until after he sold it, I couldn’t exactly help him.
/Sure, put YOUR dad on the street - not me.
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