AARP The Magazine commissioned this survey to compare the
opinions of young adults 21-26 years of age with boomers
opinions when they were the same age on topics of communication
frequency, comfort with emotional conversations, comfort with
financial conversations, frequency of socializing with parents,
degree of enjoyment socializing with parents, and opinion of
living with parents. Key findings include: - Today’s Young
Adults communicate more, interact more, and are comfortable
sharing more with their parents compared to Boomers when they
were young adults. - Differences exist based on gender. Today’s
Young Adult males communicate more, interact more, and share
more than Male Boomers when they were young adults. The gender
difference that existed when the Boomers were young adults no
longer exist, and in one case has reversed with Young Adult
males doing more with their parents than Young Adult females. -
Racial differences existed when Boomers were young that don’t
exist for Young Adults today. Non-white y