Parents for roommates?

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Goodbye independence.

Men have increasingly ditched their bachelor pads to live with their parents due to the economy, according to a Thursday Census Bureau report.

Nearly one in five men from the ages of 25 to 34 are forced to move back in with their parents, compared to one in ten women in the same age bracket, Politico reports

The weak economy has also affected the percentage of young adults the ages of 18 to 24 getting their own place: 59 percent of men and 50 percent of women chose to go back home to their parents.

Losses in wages and job opportunities along with cost-of-living that has not decreased have given young adults less financial capital to live independently.

But in the grand scheme of things, the increase of boomerang kids–young adults returning home to live with their parents–is small-scale, critics say. "If you look in the broader historical perspective, you see it's trivial,” Steven Ruggles, who oversees Census computerization at the University of Minnesota, told USA Today
 

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