From Kate Davidson of the Wall Street Journal, we learn of one more reason to hope for a return to four percent growth and generally good economic times. Seems that:
A larger share of young American women are living with family now than at any time since the 1940s, as more of them forgo early marriage for higher education …
This from a Pew finding:
In 1940, 36.2% of women age 18 to 34 lived with their parents or other relatives. That figure bottomed out around 1960, when 20.4% of women lived at home, but it climbed slowly for the next several decades and spiked in the decade leading up to and during the Great Recession.
And:
By 2014, the share of women living with family had climbed back up to 36.4%.
So not a great time to be a a young woman and, actually, not a great time to be the parents of one, either. People with experience would no doubt tell anyone who asked, including Pew, that you might miss them but you aren’t sorry to see them leave.
