by Jamie Boys, Daily Mail (Photo: Unsplash)
Young men are now 26 times more likely to live with their mother than with their wife by the time they turn 25, research suggests.
In what has been described as a ‘relationship recession’, a new paper revealed there are now millions fewer married people under 30 than in 1976, despite there being more young people.
The analysis by think tank The Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) found the marriage rate for men in their early twenties is down by 97 per cent compared with 50 years ago. For men and women under 30, the number has fallen by 90 per cent.
This is equivalent to about 3.7 million fewer married people under the age of 30 – falling from 4.5 million in 1976 to approximately 790,000 today.
It was found that young men were far more likely to be living at home with their parents than women of the same age.
The CSJ blamed the new challenges that face young people in the modern world that have made it harder to meet people and harder to move in with them.
It suggested that many youths are daunted by the world they are living in and find it increasingly difficult to form stable, happy relationships.
As house prices remain expensive compared with average earnings and as rents remain stubbornly high, more young people are staying at home instead, the paper found.