In 2025, people in their twenties are more likely to be living with their parents than ever. The proportion of 25- to 34-year-olds still in the family home has increased by a third over the last two decades, from 13 per cent to 18 per cent. Is that because they are soft, useless children, who can’t hack the real world and expect mummy and daddy to do everything for them forever? Or did their parent’s generation foster an economic climate so hostile that they can’t afford to leave home, even a decade after finishing school?
It’s no wonder that someone without their own four walls would be less proficient at household tasks. Economic circumstances keep young adults from striking out alone; inevitably, they are less independent as a result, which makes them less likely to leave home, less likely to build essential practical skills, and so on.
House prices have left young people with nothing to work for
Read MoreExcept it isn’t. After all, there’s nothing about being born between 1981 and 1996 that makes my fellow millennials inherently interested in social justice, or between 1946 and 1964 that makes boomers economically successful, any more than a birthday between 21 May and 21 June makes you duplicitous.
Unlike star signs, generational demographics do statistically trend in particular directions because of what was happening when they came of age. How could you not be impacted by the state of the housing market when you went to buy your first property, or attitudes to parenting while you were growing up?
Neither intergenerational sniping nor astrology are anything new, yet both have enjoyed a resurgence in recent years. Facing unprecedented political and environmental chaos, humans crave the clarity of easy categories more keenly than ever – but while such shorthands (Boomer! Aries!) are comforting, they’re risky too. Before you know it, you’re refusing to date someone because they were born on a Tuesday, or laughing at a whole generation who grew up during austerity, had their best years stolen by a pandemic, and are now facing down a climate catastrophe.
Whether you’re bashing up or down the generation tree, try to keep the big picture in mind, and take the piss with integrity as we welcome Generation Beta, born since 1 January 2025, to the arena. Welcome, little ones – I wonder what we’ll make fun of each other for in years to come.
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