More parents move in with kids

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More parents move in with kids
In-laws, too, and others

By Greg Toppo and Anthony DeBarros
USA TODAY

In the 1990s, your family came for dinner. Now they're moving in.

The number of parents, siblings and other relatives who live with adult heads of households grew 42% from 2000 to 2007, according to data released today by the U.S. Census Bureau.

Leading the way: parents, up 67%, to 3.6 million.

The figures suggest it isn't only elderly parents moving in. The number of parents under 65 in these households increased by 75%, and those 65 and older were up 62%. Both groups outpaced the rise in the number of people in family households overall, which is up 6% since 2000.

"This is just a major trend," says Stephanie Coontz, a family history professor at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Wash., who directs research at the Council on Contemporary Families.

Coontz suspects that a host of factors — among them higher housing costs and the USA's struggling economy — are prompting families to combine expenses.

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1. the 5 of us moved into my parents home for 6 months in the 80`s

some guy asked my dad why and what he thought about my family moving in ..my dad replied is that the way it was done in the 30`s. i learned a lot from my parents about humility...

oh yes..while i was growing up both my grandmothers lived with us until their death...

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2. My now 91 y.o. M-I-L moved in with us in 1995

We did it because it was the right thing to do. She's been slowing down significantly in the last couple of years, but she still likes her 3:00 martini.

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3. I told my kids - NEVER!!

My boys are great people and my daughter-in-law is a peach but I do not want them to have to tire themselves out taking care of me. When I can no longer live alone - put me in a home.