The number of young adults, aged 25 to 34, living in their parents' home increased between 2005 and 2011, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The percentage of men living with their parents rose from 14 percent in 2005 to 19 percent in 2011 and from 8 percent to 10 percent over the same period for women.
"The increase in 25 to 34-year-olds living in their parents' home began before the recent recession, and has continued beyond it," says study author, Rose Kreider, a family demographer with the Fertility and Family Statistics Branch.
Fifty-nine percent of men aged 18 to 24 and 50 percent of women 18 to 24 resided in their parents' home in 2011, up from 53 percent and 46 percent, respectively, in 2005. It should be noted that college students living in dormitories are counted in their parents' home, so they are included in these percentages.
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The Census data also found the percent of households that contain just one person rose from 13 percent in 1960 to 28 percent in 2011.
Of the 74.6 million children younger than 18 in 2011, 69 percent lived with two parents, while another 27 percent lived with one parent and 4 percent with no parents. Of those children who lived with two parents, 92 percent lived with two biological or adoptive parents, the data showed.
Among the children who lived with one parent, 87 percent lived with their mother. Of the children living with no parents present, 57 percent lived with at least one grandparent.
In 2011, married couples with children made up only 20 percent of all households, compared to 40 percent in 1970. The data also found there were 7.6 million unmarried couples living together and 67.8 million opposite sex couples living together, 89 percent of whom were married and 11 percent of whom were unmarried.
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