Sons and daughters under 35 who live with their parents or carers might be your idea of bliss or purgatory depending on how you get on with the older members of your family. However, it is increasingly a fact of life for many younger people in the UK today (see Figure 1).
Alongside the global financial crash, recent changes in the jobs market, the rise of student loans, and the costs of rents and first-time home purchases, there have been profound longerterm demographic shifts that are helping to shape the living arrangements of young adults today. For many twentysomethings, career choices and moving between jobs, roommates and romances has been described by social psychologist Jane Adams as ‘the new normal’.
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