The Pew Research Center reported in 2020 that 26.6 million young adults (18-29 years old) live with one or both parents. That’s 52% of the age group population. Only 18% of this number (4,788,000) accounts for young adults living at home due to the COVID-19 breakout when their college/university closed or they lost their jobs. The U.S. census bureau reports that 24 million young adults between the ages of 18 and 34 live with one or both parents. This number is slightly different from the Pew Research Center data but is still huge.
Psychology Today offers some reasons for this trend. First, these young adults are not married. This trend is a significant factor, and the cohabitation movement seems insignificant. Economic resources are another factor. These young adults do not have the financial means to live independently. Still, another reason is that young adults and their parents enjoy each other’s company. The young adults said they not only enjoyed living with their parents, but their parents made it easy for them to stay. It appears that their “failure to launch” is multifaceted in nature.
Warren Wright, the Founder, and CEO of Second Wave Learning, noted that more than 9 out of 10 executives surveyed said soft skills were equally or more important than the technical skills their potential new hires learned in school. 89% of the executives surveyed also noted that they had difficulty finding people with these soft skills.
Life Skills Curriculum teaches hard and soft skills that enable young adults to manage the challenges of adult life effectively and responsibly.