Clark Poll: Parents Of College Grads Welcome Them Home
If your adult son or daughter is living with you after graduating high school or college, don't feel bad. It turns out 61 percent of parents feel "mostly positive" about their 18-to-29-year-old children living with them, according to a poll conducted by Clark University.
It probably helps that 62 percent of parents polled said their adult child living at home helps with household chores.
Nearly 67 percent of the 1,029 parents polled said they feel closer to their children emotionally when they are living at home. And only 6 percent said they feel "mostly negative" about their grown children — which Clark calls "emerging adults" — living at home.
"The perception that most parents are grumbling when their 18-to 29-year-old kids are living with them is utterly false," said Jeffrey Jensen Arnett, Clark research professor of psychology and poll director. "Parents understand their kids face an unstable job market, poorly-paid first jobs, high rents and unstable relationships — a vastly different world than they may have faced 30 to 40 years ago."
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