"Years ago, at a New Year's Eve party on the Portuguese coast, my hosts roped me into what might be called a practical joke. As guests continued to arrive, my job was say hello to every young woman and inquire, with heavily accented diction: "Vive na casa dos seus pais?" I played along, the women looked astonished and aghast, and my friends laughed uproariously."
"Around the world, many emerging adults live with their parents. Globally speaking and historically speaking, such co-residence may well be normative. Contexts and meanings are variable, however. I recall, for example, that back in East Germany, where apartments were scarce, many young people would get married in order to be favored by the state-run housing authority. They felt they had to wed so they could get away from mom and dad."
Many emerging adults live with their parents worldwide and such co-residence can be historically and culturally normative. Economic and housing constraints can push young people into marriage or co-residence, as seen in East Germany where marriage influenced access to housing. Before modernity, multigenerational households were common and roles were tightly regulated, with young people learning trades or preparing for marriage and a central adult generation roughly aged 25–45. Modernity increased individualism, autonomy, and weakened social ties, while later cultural shifts show non-monotonic trends in family living arrangements.
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