Pandemic Pushes Millions of Adults Back To Childhood Homes
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🗓️ 19 March 2021
⏱️ 55 minutes
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| 1:15.2 | This past year, the pandemic pushed millions to move back in with family members at levels not seen since the Great Depression. |
| 1:21.9 | This was especially true for Gen Z and millennials. |
| 1:24.8 | For many cultures across the globe and within the United States, multi-generational |
| 1:28.1 | households are the norm. In the U.S., however, moving in with your parents as an adult carries a |
| 1:32.8 | stigma and is often considered a failure to launch or an undesirable last resort. We'll talk about |
| 1:38.2 | what's been good, bad, or surprising about moving back home during the pandemic. And we want to |
| 1:42.8 | hear from you. Did you move home due to |
| 1:44.5 | impacts of the pandemic? Did you have family move in with you? How was that? Or how's it going? |
| 1:49.1 | Email forum at kkudd.org, and we'll talk about it after this news. |
| 1:59.4 | Welcome to Forum. I'm Ariana Prail in Fermina Kim. Millions of people, particularly young adults, |
| 2:05.4 | boomeranged back to their childhood homes in this past year due to hardships from the pandemic. |
| 2:10.4 | Whether it was job loss and financial insecurity, health concerns, or the mental toll of isolation, |
| 2:16.2 | there were a number of push factors sending people back home. |
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