Pew’s analysts say the upward trend for young women to live at home these days is because more are going to college and/or delaying marriage.
Still, fewer young women are living at home than young men. In 2014, 42.8 percent of young male adults were living with family members (compared to 47.5 percent in 1940).
In 1940, “the lingering effects of the Great Depression may have contributed to the high level of male co-residence with family,” according to the Pew report.
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