America’s Potential “Failure To Launch” Problem

More people are living with their parents, which is one sign.

Ted Bauer
3 min readDec 19, 2022

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That screenshot is from this article, which makes two notes:

“We think the structural change in demographics might have been overlooked,” Morgan Stanley’s Edouard Aubin and a team of analysts wrote in a note on Dec. 9. “One of the key demographic trends in the US (and the broader Western market) has been the rising number of young adults living with their parents, driven by financial concerns (i.e. rental costs) as well as other sociological factors (e.g. higher penetration of higher education and increasingly delayed age for marriage).

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A Property Management survey in December of 1,200 Americans ages 26 to 41 also found that a quarter lived in a parent’s home. Of those living with their parents, 55% have moved back home within…

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Ted Bauer
Ted Bauer

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