Breen went on to analyze whether living at one’s parents’ home has positive or negative effects: “It really depends on the family.”

“Recently I did some interviews with CBC Canada after news that an upstate NY couple won a lawsuit to kick their 30-year-old son out of the house. Obviously, that seems like an extreme example of family conflict related to an (adult) child living with his parents too long. While the headline is an attention-grabber, the reality is that we do not know what that family may have been struggling with behind the scenes (e.g. mental health issues? addiction?).”

“It is important to highlight that the trend of extended families living together is in part a symptom of the terrible financial struggles that many families face. Many people have no choice but to live with their parents (or their adult children) in order to make ends meet. On the other hand, for some families, these changes might also create opportunities for stronger connections to family and culture and benefits to mental health and well-being.”

Nobody’s judging the people still living with their parents, but by the age that they do move out, those individuals are less like baby birds and more like the gigantic harpy eagles that live in rainforests.

The Guardian writes that the thinktank Civitas found that the number of young people who opt to live with their parents has grown incredibly over the last 20+ years. In 1997, 19.48 percent of young Brits (20 to 34 years old) lived with their parents; by 2017, the number was 25.91 percent.