"About one in five Americans 25-34 and one in five of those 65 and older live in households in which at least two adult generations, or a grandparent and at least one other generation, share the same roof, Pew found.
The struggling economy most definitely accelerated the trend. Pew found that from 2007 to 2008, the number of Americans living in a multigenerational family household grew by 2.6 million."
So there are more of us. More people in my age group are moving back in with their parents, who are in that 55-75ish age range, and it's not to take care of our aging parents. It's because we can't find a job. And:
"From 2005 to 2009, family households added about 3.8 million extended family members, from adult siblings and in-laws to cousins and nephews. Extended family members now make up 8.2% of family households, up from 6.9% in 2005, according to Census data out this week."
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