I was talking to a woman who has a solid, full time job, but who lives with a family member. This woman expects to move back in with her parents rather than get a place of her own in the future.

The woman I spoke with isn't in her teens or early 20's. She'll turn 30 this year. She and her parents are totally fine with her living at home (or with a relative, as she is now) as a fully gown and gainfully employed adult and I suspect it has more with the parents wanting to be needed than it does the woman actually needing help from her parents.

My parents raised the seven kids in my family to be completely self sufficient and to take care of ourselves, no matter the status of the economy or whatever else might be thrown at us. Once we moved away from home, that was it. Unless something catastrophic were to happen, we wouldn't be moving back in with them. I moved out of my parents house when I was 18-years-old and haven't looked back. I've definitely hit bumps in the road along the way and there were a few times it would have been nice to have moved back in with my parents while I got my footing, but I didn't. Personally (and I get that it's not the case with everyone), I wanted to fight my way through those bumps so I could come out on the other end knowing I'd done it myself.

The good news is that Millennials are finally finding jobs, the bad news is that just like the woman I was speaking to, they're still living at home with their parents.

A new study by Pew shows that while the unemployment rate for Millennials (people between 18 and 34-years-old), has fallen to 7.7%, they're failing to launch. They still aren't buying homes, or getting married, or, you know, getting on with their lives.

Richard Fry, an economist and lead author of the study told Time Magazine, "The group that was hit the hardest – young adults – are now getting full-time jobs and earnings are tracking upwards. But the surprise is that with the recovery in the labor market, there are fewer young adults living independently.”

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