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More Adult Children in the US Living with Parents

By Bruce Alpert

26 January, 2017

When Michael Sheehan spoke at Saint Anselm College in 2016, he asked students to thank their parents for making their college education possible.

college education 大学教育

make something possible 使什么实现

As his request, graduates of the New Hampshire school stood and cheered their parents.

graduates毕业生

"That was beautiful," said Sheehan, a top official of The Boston Globe newspaper. "Now maybe mom and dad won't mind so much when you move back in with them."

The college graduates and their parents laughed.

college graduates 大学毕业生

But Sheehan's words hold much truth.

In the United States, lots of young adults are living at home with their parents, according to the Pew Research Center.

young adults 年轻的成年人

people are living at home with their parents 和父母住在一起

Pew researchers found that 32 percent of 18-to-34-year-old Americans lived at their parents' home in 2014. That is the highest percentage nationwide since 1940.

nationwide adj. 全国范围的

More young adults lived at home with their parents than lived with a husband, wife, or partner in 2014, the center said. In that year, 31 percent were married or living with a partner -- half what it was in 1960, it said.

Hannah Raines plans to move back in with her parents after she completes her study program at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.

The 21-year-old would like to get a job and save money for graduate school.

Raines' parents, Jim and Juli, already have experience with an adult child returning home. Hannah's twin brother, Dakota, returned home last year after the building where he lived was put up for sale.

adult child 成年孩子（从父母的角度来看）

"It was very natural," Juli Raines said. She said having their adult children back at home is good for her and her husband.

"It wasn't anything I had to think about," Raines said. The only problem is figuring out where all four family members should park their cars, she noted.

Experts say younger Americans are experiencing different economic problems than earlier generations. Pay is not keeping up with housing costs or the bigger loans many graduating students must pay off after leaving school.

people are experiencing different economic problems 人们面临不同的经济问题

earlier generations 上一代人

housing costs 住房成本

graduating students 毕业的学生

Pavel Marceux is an economic expert with Euromonitor International, a market research company. He said moving home for young adults may be a good decision. They can live at home with no or low rental payments, he said.

rental payments 租金

This will enable them to save money or pay down loans. It can also help aging parents deal with changing technology, Marceux said.

This will enable somebody to do something 这让人可以做什么事情，enable，使能够

save money 存钱

pay down loans 偿还贷款

aging parents 年龄大的父母

changing technology 变化的科技

It can also help aging parents deal with changing technology. 可以作为和父母一起住的好处的一个观点。

Not everyone who has returned home to live with one or both parents is struggling with their careers.

return home 回家住

return home to live with one or both parents 回家和父母一起住

Damon Casarez is a photographer. He took pictures of his peers for The New York Times Magazine in 2014. But even with selling his photos to the New York Times and other successes, he needed to return home to save money.

photographer 摄影师

Saving is necessary so he can repay $120,000 in loans that went toward his studies at the Art Center College of Design in California.

He said, "If I didn't have that loan, I'd easily be able to live on my own somewhere comfortably."

repay $xx in loans 偿还多少钱的贷款

somebody’s studies 某人的学业

repay $xx in loans that go toward his studies 偿还某人学费的贷款

be able to do 能够做什么事情

Grateful for Education, Despite Cost

Casarez said he is happy about his education, even with the high cost. His father wanted to go to art school to study painting, but never got the chance. He said his mother also did not get to go to college.

high cost 高额的成本

art school 艺术学校

get the chance 有机会

Both parents wanted him to get a good education to move forward with his career goals, Casarez said.

career goals 职业目标

move forward with somebody’s career goals 朝着某人的职业目标前进

Another young adult who recently moved back home is Giovanna Tolda of Northampton, Massachusetts. The 31-year-old is completing a master's degree in special education.

a master’s degree 研究生学历，研究生文凭

Tolda said her parents were glad to have her back home.

While Tolda is back at home, she said her parents are talking to her about ways to buy a house after graduation, instead of renting one. Her own goals include a doctorate degree program in education, a job as a special education administrator and, yes, owning her own home.