Grown-up children living with their parents will become almost the norm, with nearly a third of under-35s predicted to be back in their childhood bedrooms by 2025, it has been claimed.
A report by the insurance company Aviva said that the rising price of property and burden of student loans would leave more young adults too poor to set up on their own.
It forecasts that 3.8 million 20 to 34-year-olds will be living with their parents in a decade, about 31 per cent of that age group. Today there are 2.8 million so-called “boomerang” children, just under a quarter of the age group. At the turn of the century the figure was only 1.9 million.
For most families intergenerational living is working well, the