Margaret Talbot dismantles a widely-cited fake statistic: that 85 percent of college grads are moving back in with their parents. She cites more reliable numbers from Pew, which finds that "twenty-nine per cent, or about three in ten, of young adults ages twenty-five to thirty-four, have lived with their parents for a time":
What was striking about the reaction to these new households was how few of the people living in them saw their situation as a sign of social pathology or even of diminished personal prospects. Yes, many of the young adults had moved back in because of the financial benefits or necessity in difficult economic times, but they weren’t taking their compromise like defeated, Häagen-Dazs-scarfing singles in rom-coms.
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