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One reason kids live with their parents until marriage in most countries is that there's a housing shortage. That's certainly true of many parts of Europe. Also, the generations aren't estranged from each other like they have been in the US until recently. And since the generations are close, when the parents get old, they can move in with the kids and get taken care of . it's a nice system.
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One reason kids live with their parents until marriage in most countries is that there's a housing shortage. That's certainly true of many parts of Europe. Also, the generations aren't estranged from each other like they have been in the US until recently. And since the generations are close, when the parents get old, they can move in with the kids and get taken care of . it's a nice system.
Would you say this is the trend in most of Europe?
Are the exceptions mostly the Anglo-nations, Northern Europe.etc?
In Brazil, it is very similar to Italy, with children usually staying at home until marriage, certainly after graduation (college). There is a noticeable lack of dormitories for most Brazilian universities, solely because children usually stay home and attend college. This is probably a holdover from the Southern European culture the country inherited (Latin American countries also have adults staying home, at least on a higher rate than the US, for example), as well as the insane COL in Brazil and the bureaucracy one has to traverse through to obtain a home/apartment/etc.
Not Anglo Europe, but here the average age for moving out is 23 for women and 24 for men.
Some old Europe-wide stats:
Danes, Britons, French and Germans leave the earliest ; Greeks, Slovaks, Italians and Slovenes the latest.
Northern European countries (even the UK) are culturally very similar. That does not surprise me. Families tend to stick together more in southern European countries.
all my children are grown up now with families of their own but no way would I ever have asked any of them to leave.. to live on their own... it just wasnt done here where I live... in fact when I used to watch old films in the 60s it fascinated me that women had their own flat , Id never heard of it..
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Interesting how it's actually the exception in most of the world. To us it just seems so 'normal', but when you think about it, it's a pretty modern thing. Throughout most of history family groups tended to stay together.
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