Usually, the reasons for their making a boomerang return are financial. And the financial problems are real. It’s simply hard for young people to gain a foothold financially when they’re fresh into the workforce nowadays, don’t you think? Harder than before, at any rate, and boomerang children are increasing in number for a fact. A Bankrate.com article ( Living with Boomerang Children, May 16, 2005) says, for instance:
In 2001, Statistics Canada reported that 41 percent of the 3.8 million 20 to 29 year olds in the country lived with their parents -- an increase from 27 percent in 1981.
I have seen similar trends reported in the United States.
The long and short of it is, once they return home and remain, the children’s problems become a problem for their parents also. It’s now a shared problem and you can only hope that they, boomerang kids and ma and pa can jointly deal with the problem without having to go through quibbles and quarrels on a daily, or even hourly, basis.
And hope we will but to be fair, sometimes parents have contributed to their children’s unseasonable homecoming in the first place. In Chinese big cities, for example, many boomerang kids are the only child of a family. In these families, parents tend to pamper their kids more than necessary, refusing, for instance, to let their “little emperors” do any “hardship” work such as making their own bed in the morning.
Others may have secretly wanted their grownup children to come back and take care of them at an old age. Therefore, they never teach their kid sufficient independence skills.
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