{"id":57071,"date":"2013-09-11T12:00:29","date_gmt":"2013-09-11T17:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=57071"},"modified":"2013-10-31T03:46:43","modified_gmt":"2013-10-31T08:46:43","slug":"nearly-one-in-five-adults-still-living-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2013\/09\/11\/nearly-one-in-five-adults-still-living-at-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly One-in-Five Adults Still Living with Their Parents"},"content":{"rendered":"

Repeatedly at SocImages, we’ve offered data showing that the middle<\/a> class<\/a> is<\/a> shrinking<\/a>. \u00a0The rich are getting richer, while a rising percentage of Americans are having trouble making ends meet. \u00a0One measure of this is the number of households that include both adults and their adult children<\/a>. \u00a0About 12% of 25 to 44-year-olds lived with their parents in 1960, that dropped to 9% by 1980 and, in 2010, topped out at 17%. \u00a0Almost one-in-five adults were living with their parents at the turn of this decade.<\/p>\n

There are two scenarios<\/a>, here, however. \u00a0One indicates the decreasing financial well-being of the elderly: parents move in with their children because they can’t afford to live alone, perhaps after retirement. \u00a0The other indicates the decreasing financial well-being of young and mid-life adults: children are moving in with their parents because they can’t get a good start to life.<\/p>\n

It turns out that the first scenario is actually on the decrease, while the latter is on the increase. \u00a0The rise in co-residence is a consequence of the failure of our economy to integrate young people into jobs that pay a living wage. \u00a0Literally, a growing number of Americans — both young people and those in mid-life — can’t afford to leave the nest. \u00a0And, no, this didn’t start with the recession, it started in the ’80s.<\/p>\n

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We’ve done a decent job trying to ensure that the elderly don’t live in poverty, it’s time to start working on making sure the rest of America doesn’t either.<\/p>\n

Thanks to @toddgorman<\/a> for the link! \u00a0Cross-posted at Pacific Standard<\/a> and\u00a0The Huffington Post<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Repeatedly at SocImages, we’ve offered data showing that the middle class is shrinking. \u00a0The rich are getting richer, while a rising percentage of Americans are having trouble making ends meet. \u00a0One measure of this is the number of households that include both adults and their adult children. \u00a0About 12% of 25 to 44-year-olds lived with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":57079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[349,36,253,272,3920,76],"class_list":["post-57071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ageaging","tag-economics","tag-history","tag-marriagefamily","tag-nation-united-states","tag-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2013\/09\/Screenshot_32.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57071"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57989,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57071\/revisions\/57989"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}