Research Problem: Dependent Variable

About 15 million young adults were reported living with their parents last year and according to the U.S. Department of Labor, “the unemployment rate for bachelor 's degree holders under the age of 27 is the worst since 1983” (CBS News). Those young adults are now called “boomerang kids”. So what do you do when you graduate without a job lined up? You used to go back home to try to save money or to try to repay some loans, that’s old news. Now, it’s different. You go back home because you just can’t find a job, period.

            Most homes are structured to have multiple bedrooms and multiple baths. This is very fitting for families, but is unfit for young adults just getting out of college. Most millennials have followed the trend of attending college longer than the past generations have, and after they are done they make it a goal to find a career first before settling down with children. While they are busy doing that, they usually rent apartments because a house is too big for them to live in alone, or with a significant other. Until prepared to have children, most millennials chose the renting lifestyle so that they won’t be tied down to a place in case they want to make time for travel, or their career pushes them into another part of the country. Buying a house symbolizes settling down in an area and often means that the couple is prepared to have children. However it is not a priority until college is completed and a career is established, meaning purchasing a house doesn’t typically happen until people are in or close to their thirties.

In an effort to save money and lower debt, more and more millennials are turning living in their parent's basement from the punchline of a bad joke or sitcom fodder into an accepted, and even

Millennials tend to be more independently driven people. We live in a generation where who you are and what you stand for is a big portion of how you live your life, and more and more people are standing up and talking about what they believe in. This independence that we have plays a part in buying a home too. There are a lot of up and coming adults who are fresh out of college looking for a “bachelor pad” type home to get started. These single apartment and condo type homes are what people prefer because it gives them a sense of independence and in a way power because they have this sense of control. People want to live by themselves and have control of their space and I can say that from a personal aspect. I am currently a junior in college and I live in a 3-bedroom apartment with one other person. My roommate lives with her boyfriend most of the time, and I prefer it this way. I like being in control of the space and being able to do

Dunn suggests that young adults are experiencing failure to launch because of the financial difficulties of living alone during a recession (Dunn, 2012). According to Dunn, High school and college grads have a hard time trying to find a meaningful job due to the fact of fewer jobs to choose from and more competition to fill them and even a harder time transitioning from an entry-level job to a career (Dunn, 2012). About 13% of adult children between 18 and 29 move back in with their parents after an attempt to live alone, majority of them are females that state that the economy cause they to move back home (Dunn, 2012). Going to college has become very popular these day but the degrees don’t seem to have a positive effect as far as leading to a job as it once did and living on minimal wage is impossible (Dunn, 2012) Living back home also enables a young adults to reduce their expenses and focus on saving money. Rather than struggling to make ends meet, they can put money in their savings accounts or investments and begin growing a nest egg (Dunn, 2012). People who use their parents as a safety net with no greater financial goal in mind are doomed to never launch away from home; those who use it as a carefully-calculated stepping-stone to a more successful life are much more likely to launch successfully and stay independent ( Dunn, 2012).

Despite this fact, home ownership in the economic and social landscape of today is a big responsibility. Economically, most millennial most likely cannot afford to own their own home. A mortgage is a much larger payment than rent for an apartment. Similarly, owning a home means paying for gas, electric, water and furniture to fill a house; this also includes any grounds upkeep depending on the home’s location and property taxes. Socially, Millennials seem to be straying away from owning a home because it

One research study suggest that high unemployment is effecting how students can pay for school (Roksa,& Arum 2012) With countless students graduating during the same time, many students are fighting for jobs after college. Many of college graduates are having a hard time to find jobs within their respect major. One of the variables that the research examine was college students who graduate in four years. the way they went about measuring this was surveying 925 participants that graduated in four years for 2 years after graduation. the participants were men and women from different ethnicities and backgrounds. Their findings were that since being in debt, most of them had a hard time transitioning into adulthood. Many of them seek assistance from family members, and many of them lived at home. Because of being in debt, and living at home. Many of them were single, and only a few got married. Since being in debt, they were less likely to be married or be living with their significant other (Roksa, & Arum

Grown children can benefit significantly from parental help. Young adults who received financial, every day and emotional support from their parents have reported clearer life goals and more satisfaction than young adults who received less parental support (Fingerman & Furstenburg , 2012). This closeness to parents, signals an overall change in the cultural climate of what relationships take place in people’s lives today versus in generations past. This change is made true by, delays in marriage, more Americans choosing to remain single, and high divorce rates, a tie to a parent may be the most important bond in a young adult’s life (Fingerman & Furstenburg , 2012). However the negative side to this can also lead to adult children feeling stifled and there even older parents sometimes feeling as though the children will never grow up. Research shows that parents and grown children alike reported awkwardness, viewing intense parental support in adulthood as a sign of harmful over-involvement. Parents reported less gratification about their own lives if they believed their children were too dependent (Fingerman & Furstenburg , 2012). So although help is great, it is the idea that this help can in turn cause more good than harm that is the issue. With the economy not yet having fully come back full swing and an ever changing definition of marriage coupled with

There are many new responsibilities young adults take on that can be difficult and complicated. Today young people are dependent on their families and often continue to rely and live with them into their twenties (“Home - Child Welfare Information Gateway). They do this for emotional and financial support and stability.

U.S. census data for the year 2011 showed that almost 20% of Americans between the ages of 25 to 34 were living with their parents. For those aged 18 to 24, the number is 59% of men and 50% of women.

In the article “The Go-Nowhere Generation,” the Buchholzes argue that the present generation of youths has taken a turn for the worse, losing the sense of spirit that were once synonymous with people of their age and settling for meager jobs in their hometowns instead. The target audience of “The Go-Nowhere Generation” is educated older adults and parents, who are most likely to share the authors’ views. The authors implement a series of comparisons, which include statistics and descriptions, between the past and present generation of young adults to illustrate their position. However, though the authors make several valid points that are supported by solid evidence, the article falls short of being truly convincing due to its narrow views

Our economic sanctions episode data are taken from TIES Data 4.0. TIES dataset covers the time period for the cases ranges from 1945 to 2005. The unit of sanctions is target country basis; if a sender makes a threat against multiple targets, a new case is created for each individual target. (Morgan, Bapat, and Kobayashi 2013) In this data, 1,412 cases are included. We exclude 165 ongoing cases, because unfinished episodes’ outcomes are undetermined. In addition, we will omit 158 episodes whose sanctions type which is composed only non-trade restriction; asset freeze, termination of foreign aid, and travel ban. Since my theory is based on the effect of restriction trade. After eliminating, the 1,089

Living alone or living with family has its advantages and disadvantages which include the amount of responsibilities, freedom and financial stability a person has.The majority of young adults for years dream about the day they finally get to move out of their parents home and start living independently. Suddenly when it's time to move out and live on their own it becomes overwhelming. Most teenagers think they are ready to take on the responsibility of living independently but when reality sets in, they realize that providing for themselves is surprisingly more difficult than living with their family.

After college, there is an expectation of the graduate to find a well-paying job or begin a career that allows them to take a step into adulthood. Adulthood has been characterized by the independence gained through financial stability. However, in recent years, college graduates have found entering the job force to be a great challenge. Finding stable income would allow a recent graduate to live independent of their parents or guardians and offer them the normal responsibilities attributed to an adult. As a result of these challenges, many college graduates find themselves moving back into their parent’s home and again under their financial care until they can provide for themselves.

The challenges of how the young adults in today's society differ from my own generation what very nicely putten into a sentence done by Hayden Shaw on a TED Talk. “We didn’t have the freedom, choice, or charge to do what the millennial have today” (Shaw, 2016). Which is something that was bitterly true. The baby boomer generation began in 1946, after War World 2, and ended in 1964. Living at home with your parents is a huge known stereotype for the millennial, also with quitting jobs easily and not staying motivated, but this isn’t known as an issue for the other generations. Which is the reason why freedom of choice is the biggest difference between millennial and the other generations. Going into adulthood as a baby boomer was not easy, as it is today, but we didn’t have many different paths to take. After getting out of highschool the choices were to go to college or to get a job, even at times trade schools. If you decided to do neither it would result in being homeless because most parents wouldn’t let their children live at home anymore. The early born of the baby boomer generation would already have children, and