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The Dr. Phil Podcast

Too Old To Live With Mom And Dad. Now, Grow Up And Get Your Own Place...

The Dr. Phil Podcast

Dr. Phil McGraw

Mental Health, Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Education, Health & Fitness

4.413.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Too Old To Live With Mom And Dad. Now, Grow Up And Get Your Own Place...
 
Millions of young adults (and let’s be real, some not-so-young ones) are still living with their parents - and shockingly, 85% of those parents are totally okay with it.
 
In fact, they’re dishing out an average of $1,474 a month to keep their kids around.
 
Are you serious?
 
Cut the umbilical cord, make your kids get a real job and find their own place to live.
 
Here's the real story about parental codependency and laziness.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Well, welcome back to the real story.

0:03.1

This just is like a bad rash.

0:05.4

It just keeps coming back.

0:08.1

Headlines.

0:09.3

Millions of young and not so young adults still live at home.

0:14.4

Shock survey shows 85% of parents thrilled to have adult kids move back home.

0:21.8

Bank of mom and dad paying out $1,474 a month on average to adult kids.

0:32.6

Wow.

0:33.4

Adulthood is starting later.

0:35.8

You live with your parents?

0:37.7

Is that a problem?

0:38.8

A 2024 study says that adulthood starts at 27 years old.

0:44.2

Checkout time when I was growing up was at 18.

0:47.4

That's when they break your plate and change the locks on the doors.

0:50.8

You moved out at 18.

0:52.3

Now it's 27?

1:00.2

A 2025 survey said that 25% don't know how to change a light bulb. Come on. Hal, do you replace that light bulb in the kitchen? What does it look like

1:07.3

I'm doing? You're an adult and 25% one in four don't know how to change a light bulb?

1:13.7

You hold on and start turning to your left. Just, oh come on. That's just ridiculous.

1:25.6

And look, here are some facts that you just need to think about.

1:30.1

33% of 18 to 34-year-olds are living with at least one parent. And a Harris poll, and this is

1:38.4

two years old, so you know it's getting worse, a 23 Harris poll said that 45% of 18 to 29-year-olds are with their parents.

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