Percentage of Young Americans Living with Parents Rises to 75-Year High
I have two girls, 24 and 18 years old. Both live at home right now.  The 24 year old graduated from a selective private liberal arts college in 2015 and is working part time in a library. She does not qualify for health insurance or many other benefits.  She does not make enough to live on her own.<p>She is also in graduate school online for a Master of Library Science (MLS). She wants to be a librarian and you pretty much need an MLS to become a librarian. Her part time income mostly goes just to pay for graduate school.<p>Her sister graduated high school 2016 and is taking a gap year as an AmeriCorp Vista employee working with center city schools on after school STEM programs from FIRST Robotics.  She will go to college fall 2017 at Olin College of Engineering.<p>We suspect that the oldest will live with us for many years and her mom and I are fine with that. Expensive liberal arts degrees don&#x27;t often pay well.  I think that situation is going to catch up with liberal arts colleges very soon.<p>I like having her around. She does some chores and provides some company to us. But mostly she stays to herself studying or reading. If you had told me 10 years ago that she would be living with us after college and that we would be okay with that, I would have thought you crazy.<p>Her younger sister will get an engineering degree and we will only see here once and awhile after that. We are okay with that also, though we will miss her so much.<p>We mostly have younger friends so they are not yet at a place where their older children can be living at home.