Young adults living in the parental home: the implications of extended youth transitions for housing and social policy

2002 ◽  
pp. 175-197
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Parental Home ◽  
Youth Transitions

scholarly journals Ambivalence in adulthood: Leaving the parental home

2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-14
Author(s):  
Celia Regina HENRIQUES ◽  
Terezinha FÉRES-CARNEIRO ◽  
Andrea Seixas MAGALHÃES
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Parental Home ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Leaving Home ◽  
Long Period ◽  
Living Together ◽  
Relational Space ◽  
Gains And Losses ◽  
The City ◽  
Leaving The Parental Home

Abstract The purpose of this study was to understand the articulation of dialogues during the emerging adult's leaving home process including the problematization and tensions involved. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 10 middle-class young adults, aged 26 to 36, who still lived with their parents in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Several categories emerged from the content analysis, among which three are presented in this article: apprehension concerning the relational space, agreements and negotiations, and the perceptions of leaving the parental home. It was verified that leaving the parental home is a dynamic process negotiated between family members. It became evident that the gains and losses from living together for a long period of time are part of an ambivalent relational environment. The time necessary for the development of parent-children relationship cannot be determined chronologically since it is the time necessary for the subjects to understand themselves at a relational level.

Resilience, Transitions, and Youth Leaving Care

2019 ◽  
pp. 51-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robbie Gilligan
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Young People ◽  
Home Care ◽  
Social Ecology ◽  
Adult Life ◽  
Out Of Home Care ◽  
Care Leavers ◽  
Youth Transitions

This chapter discusses resilience in the lives of care leavers. Youth transitions can be especially challenging for young adults who face major adversity in their lives as they negotiate early encounters with adult life. One such group is young people leaving out-of-home care at the official age, in many jurisdictions, of 18 years. Young people leaving care often do not have the luxury of extending the timing of their transitions, as may be the case for their peers not in care; circumstances force them to make early transitions and, typically, without the level of support their more fortunate peers may be able to call on. Yet many young adults leaving care do quite well; they manage to display resilience. They find resources in their social ecology which help them to manage the process of their transitions. This chapter explores the background to such displays of resilience and how former caregivers and other concerned adults may help to stimulate and sustain such resilience. It also argues that support from concerned adults in arenas such as education and work may be especially helpful in promoting resilience to adversity among youth transitioning to adulthood from care.

scholarly journals Boomerang Behaviour and Emerging Adulthood: Moving Back to the Parental Home and the Parental Neighbourhood in Sweden

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (5) ◽  
pp. 919-945
Author(s):  
Jenny Olofsson ◽  
Erika Sandow ◽  
Allan Findlay ◽  
Gunnar Malmberg
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Return Migration ◽  
Financial Support ◽  
Economic Recession ◽  
Parental Home ◽  
Economic Vulnerability ◽  
Course Changes

Abstract This paper makes two original contributions to research on young adults’ boomerang mobility. First, it reveals the magnitude and complexity of return moves by young people to their parental home and neighbourhood. Secondly, it shows that the determinants and associates of return migration vary significantly when analysed at two different geographical scales—the parental home and the parental neighbourhood area. Using longitudinal data (1986–2009) on four cohorts of young adults, we find that boomeranging to the parental home in Sweden has increased in times of economic recession and is associated with economic vulnerability, such as leaving higher education or entering unemployment, and partnership dissolution. While returning to the parental home can offer financial support in times of life course reversal, we found gender differences indicating a greater independence among young women than men. Returning to the parental neighbourhood is found to be a very different kind of mobility than returning to co-reside with one’s parents, involving the migration decisions of more economically independent young adults. Results also indicate that returns to the parental neighbourhood, as well as returns to the parental home, can be part of young people’s life course changes.

Coming Home Again: Returns to the Parental Home of Young Adults

1990 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 241-255 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie Da Vanzo ◽  
Frances Kobrin Goldscheider
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Parental Home

scholarly journals Fostering Household Formation: Evidence from a Spanish Rental Subsidy

2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ainhoa Aparicio-Fenoll ◽  
Veruska Oppedisano
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cash Transfer ◽  
Household Formation ◽  
Parental Home ◽  
Difference In Differences ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Causal Impact ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Identification Strategy

Abstract In Southern Europe youngsters leave their parental home significantly later than in Northern Europe and the United States. In this paper, we study the effect of a monthly cash subsidy on the probability that young adults live apart from parents and childbearing. The subsidy, introduced in Spain in 2008, is conditional on young adults renting accommodation, and it amounts to almost 20% of the average youngsters’ wage. Our identification strategy exploits the subsidy eligibility age threshold to assess the causal impact of the cash transfer. Difference-in-Differences estimates show positive effects of the policy on the probability of living apart from parents, living with a romantic partner, and childbearing for 22 year-olds compared to 21 year-olds. Results persist when the sample is expanded to include wider age ranges. The effect is larger among young adults earning lower incomes and living in high rental price areas. This is consistent with the hypothesis that youngsters delay household formation because the cost is too high relative to their income.

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