The recession has pushed extended families closer together, with more parents and kids moving in with in-laws and relatives and friends, according to the latest census figures. A Post story last week on the trend reported that in the Washington region there?s been a 33 percent increase in the number of people living with extended family or friends.
?We haven?t seen anything like this since the Great Depression,? Frances Goldscheider, a sociologist who studies families told the Post.
Much of the increase is fueled by young adults moving back in with their parents while they look for jobs or endure unpaid or underpaid employment. I?ve recently touched on that topic with a post on the controversial new book ??How To Raise Your Adult Children,? by Gail Parent and Susan Ende (Plume, August 2011).
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