According to a new study by the Pew Research Center, millennial men are more likely to live with their parents than with a spouse or partner, with 35% staying with mom and dad and just 28% living with a significant other.
Millennial women are less likely to live at home than with a partner, but not by much. Thirty-five percent live with a significant other, while 29% live with their parents. This is the smallest gap for young-adult women ever recorded by Pew.
In fact, more millennials (ages 18 to 34 as defined by Pew) are living at home than in any other living arrangement. This is the first time a plurality of young adults in that age bracket have lived with their parents, rather than on their own or with a partner or roommates, in American history, according to the Pew analysis. A grand total of 32.1% of millennials are living at home.
There could be a few reasons for this shift, according to Richard Fry at Pew, but chief among them is that young people just aren't settling down the way they used to.
"This turn of events is fueled primarily by the dramatic drop in the share of young Americans who are choosing to settle down romantically before age 35," Fry said in a post on the study.
"Dating back to 1880, the most common living arrangement among young adults has been living with a romantic partner, whether a spouse or a significant other. This type of arrangement peaked around 1960, when 62% of the nation's 18- to 34-year-olds were living with a spouse or partner in their own household, and only one-in-five were living with their parents."
Fry also noted that some of the difference between men and women may be driven in part by changes in economic status.
On the one hand, the percentage of young men employed in the workforce has dropped from its all-time high in 1960, and wages for the cohort have declined.
On the other hand, young women have steadily been increasing their employment since that time. So much of the divergence, Fry said, comes from women delaying cohabitating with a partner because of improved job prospects for them and declining prospects for men.
Underlying these trends could be a variety of economic factors including student debt, the high cost of first-time homes, and slower-than-expected wage growth over the past few years. Add those all up and there are more than a few economic deterrents from getting out of the childhood bedroom.
Comment: How broke are Millennials? Pretty broke when you look at the data
Millennials are the poorest income group in the United States: A very high number of Millennials don't even work or if they are working, are stuck in a low wage service industry jobs that provide no benefits aside from the immediate wages to pay daily bills and many already carry levels of debt looking like mortgages.
The study also notes that educational attainment and ethnic or racial background can influence living situations. For example, those with bachelor's degrees were much more likely to not live at home than those with less education.
Whatever the reasons, it's clear that more and more young adults are crashing with mom and dad.
The generation that gave birth to the millennials have themselves to blame. These are the people who brought us the Reagans, both Bush's, Clinton, and whom now want to bring in another Clinton, or worse Ted Cruz.
Those are the willfully ignorant people who deserve to be punished for their crimes. They deserve to lose their jobs, their homes, and to suffer while junior lives in the basement because he/she was, for their own good, compelled to complete 12 years of brainwashing by the neocons who control and direct the education system in the Untied States.
These are the people whom together with their thoughtless brats will be sitting around starving when economic collapse hits, who are clueless about the real cause of planetary disaster because all they know is what the CEO's of the propaganda stations tell them, and if that's not bad enough they then follow that up with listening to their favorite political stooge on the radio station as they brainlessly commute 200 miles a day for 2 to 4 hours and don't even ask why they don't have trolleys and light rail instead of billions of cars.
Good, because these are the same people whose greed enabled the banksters to create a real estate bubble and to loot the treasury, to deprive people like me of a retirement, these are the people who deserve in spades all that God will give to them for their blind faith in criminal operation that they devoted their lives to upholding.
I feel sorry for kids these days, but there again, like parent like child. Just stupid chickens ready for the fryer. Look at how stupid they are, what they are concerned with, how un-informed, willfully uninformed they truly are. So I can't feel all that sorry for them. Not now, not when we have live through all that has happened and these same generations remains willfully stupid.