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Cohen sees increasing family diversity in trend of children to live with parents

More 18-to-34 year olds live with their parents than any other living arrangement

Tara Bahrampour, reporting for the Washington Post, points out that the shift of young people moving back into the family home after school has been generations in the making, according to results of a new Pew Research study. Faculty Associate Philip Cohen commented that the study "signals an important demographic milestone," Bahrampour wrote. "I see this as part of an overall trend in an increase in family diversity and decline in the nuclear-family household,” Cohen said.

Education is a factor with those whose education level is lower tending more toward living with parents and those with higher education living with romantic partners. "Marriage has declined faster for people with low levels of education, and that has a lot to do with their ability to attain the kind of economic security to make them feel able to settle down and be excited to do so," Cohen said.

See the Washington Post story

See the Pew Research Center report