How Do You Get Grown Kids to Move Out and Grow Up?

It’s becoming a stereotype: Young adults are living in their parents’ basements, unable to secure gainful employment and unwilling to grow up. While that’s a bit of an exaggeration, the percentage of adults ages 25 to 34 living in multigenerational households increased from 11% in 1980 to 21.6% in 2010, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of U.S. Census data. That’s a major change from just a generation ago, when kids living with their parents after high school or college graduation were hardly common. And it’s costing their parents dearly. So how do you get them to move out and grow up? Read the full story on our sister site, Living on the Cheap.