The Boomerang Bungalow
Congratulations, your kid is out of the house! You did it. You raised them. Prepared them. Got them off to school and gave them a good shot at a great future.
You are officially an “Empty Nester.“
Until you aren’t. They’re back!
You love your children, but once they launched, most of us don’t anticipate them returning home.
It’s not necessarily a trend we are accustomed. While multigenerational living arrangements were more common in the past, only around 10% of young adult children lived with their parents in the 1980s.
Today, according to Pew Research Center, nearly 52% of young adults (18 to 29 years old) lived with one or both of their parents. And, in some geographic regions, the percentage is even higher. The number and share, Pew found, grew across the board for all major racial and ethnic groups, men and women, and metropolitan and rural areas.