Do you have adult children living with you at home?
They come in two main categories, according to researchers: ‘boomerang kids’ (those who left for a while and have returned home) and ‘failure to launch’ kids (those who have never left).
Chances are, you do have one or two of these – or perhaps you used to. In any case you are certain to know someone in this new but increasingly common domestic predicament.
Because it is a relatively new phenomenon, there hasn’t been a lot of research done about it – trying to understand why it is happening, how it affects those involved and what, if anything, we need to know or do about it.
Now, Associate Professor Cassandra Szoeke and PhD researcher, Katherine Burn, from the University of Melbourne’s Faculty of Medicine, Health and Dentistry Sciences have done us the favour of sifting through what research has been done to date – 20 studies involving 20 million people worldwide – clarifying what we know.
Read more here.
Read more here.
