CEFS 502 re-nesting
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Adult children who choose to live with their parents either because they never left, termed failure to launch, or they moved out and moved back in after a time, also known as boomerang children, may choose to do so for several reasons. Researchers have stated that in Euro-American cultures, adult children will stay or return to their parent’s home for socioeconomic conditions, self-confidence or identity crisis, higher education pursuits, career choice, marital status, parent-child relationship status, or mental and physical health (Evans et al., 2022). All of these reasons list adult child staying with their parents as a failure, and often are given a negative connotation; however, some researchers assert that cultural expectations also play a role in this decision (Evans et al., 2022). With the diversity found in North America as a result of immigration, multigenerational living is becoming more common across the United States and Canada (Mazurik et al., 2020). Therefore, counselors should take into consideration that not all coresidence of adult children with their parents is necessarily a failure, but rather a socially or culturally expected norm within that specific family. The impact on parents in this dynamic can be both positive and negative. For example, in
circumstances where coresidence is culturally expected, parents are generally happier with their
children at home, as a preventative to loneliness, as well as a share of the household tasks (Burn
& Szoeke, 2016). Conversely, when parents do not plan to have their children in their household
as long, they report being dissatisfied with the lack of privacy and social lives, as well as pressure from additional financial responsibility (Burn & Szoeke, 2016).
The adult children themselves also have positive and negative impacts on their lives. For instance, they can benefit from mothers who continue to take on all of the standard domestic tasks and household labor while also acting as mental health counselors or professional and educational coaches (Mazurik et al., 2020). On the other hand, they are often dissatisfied with the imposition their parents place on their independence, highlighted even more when the child has moved back in, and their parents attempt to reinstate rules and limitations from a younger age (Burn & Szoeke, 2016). In scripture, there is no specific age requirement to leave a parent’s house. However, there are some cultures who will take Genesis 2:24 as a guideline, asserting that one does not move out of their parent’s home until marriage (Evans et al., 2022). Additionally, an adult child should be making choices that honor their parents as commanded in Exodus 20:12, so if they continue to co-reside with their parents and place unnecessary stress and burdens on them when the adult child as other options, they may not be doing all they can to honor their parents.
References
Burn, K., & Szoeke, C. (2016). Boomerang families and failure-to-launch: Commentary on adult children living at home.
Maturitas, 83
, 9-
12. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.maturitas.2015.09.004
Evans, V. L., Ferrier, P. J., Pugh, S. M., Bohecker, L., & Edwards, N. N. (2022). Coresidence is Not a Failure to Launch or Boomerang Children.
The Family Journal, 30
(3), 459-
465. https://doi.org/10.1177/10664807211063197
King James Bible
. (2017). Cambridge University Press. (Original work published 1769)
Mazurik, K., Knudson, S., & Tanaka, Y. (2020). Stuck in the nest? A review of the literature on coresidence in Canada and the United States.
Marriage & Family Review, 56
(6), 491-
512.
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Abagail, I am intrigued to read your data on the average age of leaving home in some European countries. I have generally believed that most people move out of their parent’s home in their late teens or early twenties, and for a certain period of time in American history, that was true. In North America during the 1980s, only around twenty-five percent of people in their twenties lived with their parents, as opposed to living alone or with a spouse (Mazurik et al., 2020); However, by 2011 the numbers increased to forty-two percent (Mazurik et al., 2020). This narrative that most people move out when they are younger is a perspective that is pushed by media and popular press (Mazurik et al., 2020), giving a negative connotation to anyone who chooses to co-reside with their parents until later in life. However, living with parents until an older age is not necessarily a failure, especially when it is expected culturally (Evans et al., 2022). Even in scripture parents are told to teach their children how to live, and what is expected of them so that they will continue on that path when they are older (Proverbs 22:6). Therefore, we should always stive to consider the environmental, economic, religious, as well as cultural expectations as counselors when working with a family system. References
Evans, V. L., Ferrier, P. J., Pugh, S. M., Bohecker, L., & Edwards, N. N. (2022). Coresidence is Not a Failure to Launch or Boomerang Children.
The Family Journal, 30
(3), 459-
465.
https://doi.org/10.1177/10664807211063197
King James Bible. (2017). Cambridge University Press. (Original work published 1769)
Mazurik, K., Knudson, S., & Tanaka, Y. (2020). Stuck in the nest? A review of the literature on coresidence in Canada and the United States.
Marriage & Family Review, 56
(6), 491-512.