Cultures tend to be internally inconsistent.

almost one in five graduates in their late 20s now live with their parents.

By contrast, only one in eight university graduates had failed to fly the nest by the same age 20 years

ago, research from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) shows. It also found that grown-up sons are

twice as likely as their sisters to still be living with their parents in their late 20s. With nearly a quarter of

men approaching 30 still living at home, the findings are bound to lead to claims of a "generation of

mummy's boys".

Rising property prices, mounting student debts and the effects of recession on the job market have

forced a wave of young people to move back into the family home at an age when they would normally

be moving out. Young professionals in their late 20s or early 30s have been nicknamed the "boomerang

generation" because of the trend toward returning to the family home having firstly left to study. Recent

research has suggested that young people in Britain are twice as likely to chose to live with their parents

in their late 20s than their counterparts(对手们) elsewhere in Europe. But commentators warned that the

phenomenon may have more to do with young people facing "dire" prospects(景象) than simply a desire

to save money. While the proportion of those of university or college age moving out from the family

home has continued to rise in the last 20 years, among those in their mid and late 20s the trend has been

reversed(颠倒).

Overall 1.7 million people aged from 22 to 29 now share a roof with their parents, including more

than 760,000 in their late 20s, the ONS figures suggest. In 1988 22. 7 per cent of men aged 25 to 29

were still living with their parents but last year the proportion was 24. 5 per cent, according to the ONS.

B. Grown-up sons who are still be living with their parents are twice as likely as their sisters.

C. Young people who live with parents now in Britain are less than elsewhere in Europe.

D. More and more elder people trend to live independently.

B. that they want to take care of their old parents

C. that their parents are badly sick

D. that they face miserable phenomenon

B. now live with their parents

C. leave for college

D. go to work

B. these prospects have nothing to do with the financial crisis

C. more and more young people will live with their parents in the future in Britain

D. the government should be responsible for this

B. Boomerang Generation

C. Living with Their Parents

D. Going back