boomerang families

• Katherine Hill, senior research associate at the Centre for Research in Social Policy at Loughborough University: '"Children living at home well into their 20s is not a temporary phenomenon, it's here to stay."'
• A lot of young people will spend most of a decade of their lives living like this
• Reasons for rise in boomerang children families - Economic


  • increasingtuition fees, a precarious job market and low wages, sky-high private sector rents and rising house prices and mortgage deposits. Consequently, this leads to individuals moving back in with their parents after university/a period of living out on their own; thus giving rise to boomerang children families. 
•  Divorce & Relationship Breakdown 


  • cult of the individual'- people no longer stay in unhappy marriages compared to previous years etc. and relationship breakdown become more common. 
• Reasons for rise in boomerang children families

  • Economic
  • Divorce & Relationship Breakdown
• Economic reasons


  • Tuition fees
  • Precarious job market and low wages
  • Sky-high private sector rents
  • Rising house prices and mortgage deposits
• The growing cost of housing has fuelled the boomerang trend, with the proportion of adults aged 25-34 owning a home falling from 55% in 1996 to 34% in 2016
• Renting privately consumed 9% of tenants' income on average in 1961; by 2017 it accounted for 36%
• More than one million under-25s are now unemployed
• Future students should expect to finish their degree with debts approaching £60,000
• Economic reasons


  Individuals moving back in with their parents after university/a period of living out on their own
• Divorce & Relationship Breakdown

  • Notion of 'pure relationships'
  • Relationships and marriages are no longer seen as necessarily being permanent
  • Marriage is now based on confluent love
  • If couples are not fulfilled in their relationship, they no longer stay together out of a sense of duty
• Divorce & Relationship Breakdown


  Individuals moving back in with their parents after separation/divorce/relationship breakdown