Parents face three-year wait for children to fly the nest after university... and some stay into the

[Jazzy]

For parents welcoming their offspring back to live at home after university, it’s a sobering thought.



Children who return to the family home are staying for an average of three years, a survey showed yesterday.



It found that an average grown-up son or daughter who returns to live in the family home at around the age of 23 does not leave until they are 26.



A quarter stay for five years, and one in 12 hang around for more than ten years.



The findings will come as a wake-up call to parents, who may think of the arrangement as nothing more than a stopgap measure to allow their children to find their feet in the real world – such as getting a job and finding suitable accommodation.



The reminder to parents that these ‘boomerang’ children may be hard to get rid of was made in a report on family spending by the Aviva insurance group.



The survey, carried out among more than 2,000 adults under 55 by Opinion Matters, follows evidence that large numbers of young people have opted to remain with their parents through their 20s and in many cases into their 30s.



‘The main driver behind intergenerational living is money,’ the report said.

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Once I left the nest I enjoyed my freedom and never once thought of moving back home. I was an adult and needed to act like one and do things on my own.



What are your thoughts on this?

 

[Cranos]

If it's as hard to find an affordable place over there as it is over here then I totally understand it. I'll probably have to move back home for a year after uni. Not because I want to or because it's easy and convenient (it's really not), but because there's no way I can afford the rent for my own place.



3 years is extremely long however. I go insane after being home 3 months during summer vacation, let alone 3 years...