Home stretch: What happens when twentysomethings move back in with their parents?

1 May 2012

Summary:

Nowadays many people in their twenties move back in with their parents, due to student debt, high prices on the housing market and the lack of jobs on the labour market. One of them, Nat Luurtsema lives in her parents’ home at the age of 28. She felt she messed up and started a weblog about her life; she received many responses. Her weblogs were turned into a book, called “Cuckoo in the Nest”. Many people return to their family nest, they are called the “boomerang generation”. The outcome of an investigation of the Office for National Statistics shows that almost a third of men and a fifth of women between 20 and 34 years live at home with their parents.

Opinion:

As a result of the economic crisis many people move back in with their parents. The reasons  given are understandable and it gives people an opportunity to rearrange their lives. In other cultures, for instance in West Africa, parents and their children live together for a large part of their lives. They share a house or live beside each other. But in our Western World it is a bit peculiar to move back in with your parents. I think people should develop themselves and go forward instead of going back to their childhood situation. There must be other solutions.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/home-stretch-what-happens-when-twentysomethings-move-back-in-with-their-parents-7658253.html