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Adult Children/Leaving Home

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in. For example, a 22-year-old college grad wants to hold out for the right job or a 25-year-old who has broke up with her boyfriend cannot possibly afford a place  of her own (Paul and Jozefowicz 40). Whatever the reason, young adults are either remaining at home after graduation or moving back home in increasing numbers. The 2000 census reported  that 4 million adult children between the ages of 25 and 34 still lived with their parents (Paul and Jozefowicz 42). American Demographics magazine places this number at  18 million for 20 to 34 year olds living at home, which means that this group represents 38 percent of all young adult singles (Echoboomerang 44). Author Alex Chadwick (How  to Get Adult Children to Move Out of the House) places the number at 11 million. Whatever the statistics, the consensus does appear to be that this is a growing  trend that is becoming accepted as normal and "to be expected" rather than as something out of the ordinary. Numerous explanations have been offered concerning this new social phenomenon.  The following study examines the role that family intimacy plays in the decisions of young people to become independent. Are young people more or less likely to move away from  home if they come from a close family? Literature Review David Anderegg, professional of psychology at Bennington College in Vermont and author of Worried All the Time: Over  Parenting in the Age of Anxiety, points out that parents used to let go of their adult children at the age of eighteen (Paul and Jozefowicz 40). However, he asserts  that this changed in the 1990s when the children of the Baby Boomer generation began to turn eighteen and devoted parents found it difficult to relinquish their emotional investment in