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| Pew Reseach issues female millennial basement dweller report |
| 2015-11-12 |
| [PEW] A larger share of young women are living at home with their parents or other relatives than at any point since the 1940s. A new Pew Research Center analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data shows that 36.4% of women ages 18 to 34 resided with family in 2014, mainly in the home of mom, dad or both. The result is a striking U-shaped curve for young women -- and young men -- indicating a return to the past, statistically speaking. You'd have to go back 74 years to observe similar living arrangements among American young women. Young men, too, are increasingly living in the same situation, but unlike women their share hasn't climbed to its level from 1940, the highest year on record. (Comparable data on living arrangements are not available from before then.) Back in 1940, 36.2% of young women lived with their parents or relatives. That number dropped over the next couple of decades as marriage rates increased and women began joining the workforce in larger numbers, becoming financially able to live on their own. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #14 These days, the young men shy away. They have a good idea what's waiting for them if they marry or even cohabit too long. We're creating a generation of white spinsters. (The black women just have their babies, men be damned.) |
| Posted by: KBK 2015-11-12 20:55 |
| #13 Don't complain if she can help with the dishes. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2015-11-12 18:59 |
| #12 So this is what Progressivism offers up--regression? |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2015-11-12 16:35 |
| #11 Boarding houses are often nowadays outlawed by current zoning & city regulations. That's unless they're illegals being packed well beyond the occupancy rates for converted single family homes (and garages). Then zoning and regs go out the 'moral superiority' window. Of course, no one dare cares the providers the slum lords they are because they're doing the 'good work'. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-11-12 16:11 |
| #10 In the late 1930's before they got married, both my future parents lived in boarding houses (not the same ones, either). Boarding houses are often nowadays outlawed by current zoning & city regulations. Not to mention the unlikelihood of modern would-be boarders being semi-civilized to begin with. My parents had already moved hundreds of miles away from their parents, to seek employment in places where such rarities existed, otherwise they would probably have lived with their parents prior to marriage. After their marriage, they started housekeeping in my mother's boarding house. Mother always considered her landlady and landlord her second parents, and was very attached to them for the rest of their lives. These second parents had already lost their only daughter to trichinosis. Parents always described them as tough as nails and with hearts of gold. Decades later, they even assisted my sister getting her start in life out of nursing school. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2015-11-12 14:25 |
| #9 Wymyn's Studies not paying well in the real world |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2015-11-12 14:02 |
| #8 Who's going to marry me and my crushing student loan debt? |
| Posted by: regular joe 2015-11-12 12:49 |
| #7 ...you referring to the 'tax the crap out of the young and healthy' to support the poster children of unaffordable health insurance? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-11-12 11:22 |
| #6 Might be something to do with the massive collapse in land affordability the "boomers" engineered to live at other's expense. It has more to do with Mr. Barack "Pivot to Jobs" Obama's desire to crush the middle class. No full time jobs = live in parents' basement. |
| Posted by: frozen al 2015-11-12 11:16 |
| #5 So the era of "nothing is impossible" ran out of unicorn horns, and some of us are going back to the usual human patterns? |
| Posted by: James 2015-11-12 10:36 |
| #4 The tech reports I read, said 1943 for the end of the Great Depression. Took full mobilization to kick in to get the numbers back aligned. Yep, pretty much, the rejection of 4000 years of human behavior believing that being modern, hip, and urban could over come that without consequences. Helped along with good Marxists who don't believe in real history - "we invoke year zero to remake society." As ye sow... |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-11-12 09:58 |
| #3 Lemmesee....height of the Great Depression was in 1933, which would be 82 years ago. Depression didn't end (according to gov't) until around 1939 or 1940, some 8 years later....74 years ago. Does that mean we've got another 7-8 years of Champ's 'new normal?' Aggravating factors: a. Careerism and wymn in the workplace. b. Lower rates of getting hitched, starting families. c. BC pills. d. Popularity of man-hating, father's Oldsmobile, religion, "traditional" roles. d. Obsession with social media and instant gratification. e. Borrowing for education and heavy debt load. f. Gender uncertainty. g. Hollywood. h. Divorce. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2015-11-12 08:54 |
| #2 Part of me sez this ain't all bad for society. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2015-11-12 08:51 |
| #1 Might be something to do with the massive collapse in land affordability the "boomers" engineered to live at other's expense. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2015-11-12 06:16 |