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TWENTY SOMETHING BOOMERANGS A MYTH

SHARON JAYSON, USA TODAY - Those "boomerangs" -- young adults who return
home to live with their parents -- aren't quite the phenomenon popular
culture has made them out to be. . . The boomerang idea is more of a
blip on the sociological radar that has attracted undue attention from
baby boomers, says Michael Rosenfeld, a social demographer at Stanford
University. His new book, The Age of Independence, analyzed Census data
back to 1880.

Rosenfeld says almost 41% of singles ages 20-29 in 2005 were living
apart from their parents, compared with 11% in 1950 and about 19% in
1880. . . More than 70% of singles ages 20-29 lived with a parent in the
1940s, a level that hasn't been reached again.

Rosenfeld's book includes data only through 2000, but his analysis of
newer data does support a recent small increase in adult children who
return home; it shows almost 39% of single women and almost 46% of
single men ages 20-29 lived with a parent in 2005, up from 36% of women
and almost 42% of men in 2000.

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