Intro
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When angry, American fathers commonly shout, “As soon as you’re 18, you’re on your own means a lot. It means you’re a legal adult, and, more often than not, people move out of their parents’ home when they are 18.
...And some of them come back or never leave at all. Adults live with their parents for lots of reasons. Sometimes their parents need care, or they need a place to stay to save up money after college. Even though it’s relatively common, people tend to look down on adults who live with their parents in the United States. Listen to Beren and Marni talk about it.
Dialog
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2. Study - Read the dialog again to see how the vocab words are used.
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Marni: So I was reading that Time Magazine article recently about when you…Like, people in their 30s and moving back in with their parents…
Beren: Yeah, that’s a huge thing.
Marni: Yeah, and I was thinking, you know, in this culture, there’s such a stigma against living with your parents past a certain age. Like, you’re sort of viewed as a failure or something. But in many cultures, in many places in the world it’s pretty normal to live with your family.
Beren: Yeah, you don’t move out until you’re married. And if you never marry, you never move out.
Marni: Well, that or even sometimes you marry and yet you just live with your family and then, you know…Sort of in this country, I think parents move back in once they’re elderly, but it’s like, there’s this huge gap of time where it’s totally taboo and frowned upon, if you will…
Beren: I know a bunch of people who are actually moving back in with their parents.
Marni: I did it for like half a year when I was 29. It was great. I saved a lot of money.
Beren: Yeah?
Marni: Yeah. And my parents were happy to have me there. It’s an interesting thing. I don’t know…Is it so terrible?
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Discussion
Marni recently read an article about how many grown Americans are moving back in with their parents. It made her think about how in many countries, it’s perfectly normal to live with your parents past 30.
Beren notes that in a lot of places, people live with their families until they get married. But Marni points out that sometimes even married people continue to live with their family.
In the US, parents sometimes move in with their children when they get older and need someone to help take care of them. But there is a gap of 30 or 40 years between when the child turns 18 and the parents become elderly when it’s regarded as strange for them to live together.
Nonetheless, Beren knows a few people who have moved back in with their parents. Marni lived with her parents for a brief time a little while ago. She saved money and her parents were glad she was there. What’s so wrong about living with your parents when you’re an adult?
Comments
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Italy |
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Iran, Islamic Republic Of |
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Italy |
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Chile |
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Julito, hello :) Thanks to God, my parents in law are retired peple ( they are 81 and 71 years old). They ready to wait until the rest members of our big family will have used the bathroom. You are right each morning is hectic, but I get up very early at 5:50AM ( my working day starts earlier than others) so I use bathroom at first and go at work. We all try to reduce the queue at the door to the bathroom |
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Nothing wrong about living with parents or with parents in law in the same house or in the same appartmenet. The real estate in my country has the astronomic prices. The interest rate for the purchase the real estate is very high. The minority of people in my country can afford themselves such luxury as to buy their own house or apartment. The majority of people ( married people too) live with their parents. The apartments often not big enough and it is getting crowed with two families within it, indeed, but people have no other opportunity. :( l live with my parents in law more than 10 years. They are nice people. They always try to help me to look after my children, because they know I have nobody closer than they are in Belarus ( my parents are 1500 km away) I also help them in return. :) The opinion of children’s psychologists is positive about children which live with thier grandparents. It helps children to be kind, sensitive, attentive in the future. It helps them to be sociable. The only one disadvantage I must mention about it is the lack of your own space, where you can relax and to be on your own for a while…. people are everywhere |
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Saudi Arabia |
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Turkey |
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Georgia |
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Myanmar |
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Iran, Islamic Republic Of |
every people in iran live with their parents before they married. and then we go to our parent's home every weakend. relationship with family member is so importent hear. and of course love is most important in this relation.so I love my family so much |
