parents looking forward to shoehorning their adult kids out of the house may face disappointment.
“In 1981, only about 20 per cent of B.C. youth aged 20 to 29 were living with their parents,” said Family Roots, a report issued by the Ministry of Children and Family Development.
“By 2006, 58 per cent of 20 to 24-year-olds, 26 per cent of 25 to 29-year-olds and over one in ten of 30 to 34-year-olds still lived with their parents in B.C.”
There are also more “boomerang” children who leave home and then come back, said the report.
The most common reason was to pursue further education followed by general financial pressures, it said.
“The key reasons adult children return home are finishing school without finding work and losing work.”
The report said that children stay home longer among immigrant families.
“Among recent immigrant families, three out of four have at least one child of any age living at home, compared to just over half of Canadian-born families,” said the report. “And nine per cent of immigrant families headed by seniors still have children at home, compared to one per cent of Canadian-born.”
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