The Guardian view on prolonging kidulthood: Britain prices young adults out of independent life | Editorial
Yet the UK’s economic model increasingly denies them the means to do so. Analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), commissioned partly for the BBC, finds that the proportion of 25-year-olds living with their parents has risen from 25% in the 1990s to 42% today. The research says “co-residence” among those in their 20s and 30s has increased by more than a third over two decades.
- ▪Yet the UK’s economic model increasingly denies them the means to do so.
- ▪Analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), commissioned partly for the BBC, finds that the proportion of 25-year-olds living with their parents has risen from 25% in the 1990s to 42% today.
- ▪The research says “co-residence” among those in their 20s and 30s has increased by more than a third over two decades.
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| Publication time | Thu, 30 Jul 2026 17:30:50 GMT |
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‘Britain appears to be slowly drifting towards a southern European experience without the family culture that makes this feel normal.’ Photograph: GettyView image in fullscreen‘Britain appears to be slowly drifting towards a southern European experience without the family culture that makes this feel normal.’ Photograph: GettyOpinionHousingThe Guardian view on ‘kidulthood’: Britain prices young adults out of independent lifeEditorialMore young people live with parents as low wages, insecure work and unaffordable housing turn family support into another source of inequalityThu 30 Jul 2026 13.30 EDTLast modified on Thu 30 Jul 2026 14.12 EDTShareIn Britain, young people are expected to become independent in their 20s. Yet the UK’s economic model increasingly denies them the means to do so.
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