Are we starting to move towards multi-generational households?

Question

I was reading a report talking about how many people in their 20s and 30s are living with their parents. (And importatnt to also note that some parents that have become unemployed or bankrupt are now living with their kids).

This may all be a temporary situation because of the economy. More 10% of the country is unemployed and finding a job with a decent wage is extremely difficult especially if you've been unemployed for awhile. But if this recession turns into a long term problem do you feel that we will see more and more families living closer together to pool money and resources?

More and more people are also putting off marriage and pregnancy. In the UK for example, the average age a woman has her first child is now age 29. Just 15 years ago that number was 24. A similar trend is now starting to show up in the US and other western countries.

Do you think the economic situation facing the country is going to change how our society views this kind of topic?

Answer 1

This is normal in most parts of the world and in most cultures. I knew a guy who's parents had immigrated to the United States from India. He was 32 and still lived at home and had no plans to move. It was part of his culture for the children to stay with the family until they become married. The new marriage then moves to create a new family unit. Even then the family doesn't abandon each other. They support and help each other, especially if someone becomes ill. Many Native Americans and hispanic cultures also share this belief. Go down to Mexico and you will find some very large families very close.



The idea of moving out at age 18 and creating "life of your own" is a very expensive western way of life. And you don't see this in much of the world because most places in the world is not very economically well-off. We are still are trying to maintain a way of life that is extremely expensive and extremely taxing to the financial system. If we had more families pooling their money and resources, welfare would not be as expensive as it is today. Something is like 1 out 7 Americans are on food stamps? That's too many.

Answer 2

Oh how i understand how that feels ... college age teenagers I saved out of the abode ALL day ... throughout the time of the holiday journeys, the little ones have been on the park, took up new activities, musical training ... something i'd desire to think of of, that gave the olds peace & quiet for a jointly as ... dinner ... we had alot of barbeques ... dinner exterior develop into effortless & if it had to be interior ... it develop into virtually like a force via ... 2 set menus ... one for the olds & the different for the little ones ... nana on some activities could prepare dinner up a typhoon & the little ones could each from time to time ooh & aah .. if no longer eww they're way with the aid of dinner yet had the little ones pitch in installation or clearing away ... chaotic at situations & purely slightly a logistics job coordinating each physique, even the olds to pitch in, yet we've been given with the aid of it. Oh, how i think for you ... stable luck!

Answer 3

Everything keeps repeating itself - we are going back to the way it was