TikTok: Why young delay 'adulting' with milestones out of reach

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TikTok: Why young delay 'adulting' with milestones out of reach
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Many young people find aims like buying a home are way behind where their parents were at same age.

Get married, buy a house and have children. That’s how most of our parents did it and they probably think other people should too.

Often the parents are in the housing market and married with kids, whereas things are very different for their own children.But Ellie Harris, 25, whose parents were married with three children at her age, said people underestimate that it was a "completely different time". The Resolution Foundation recently said that 18-34 year olds in 1997 were on average in a couple in their own home whereas today, people in that demographic are living at home with their parents.

Natalie has had a partner for some time but does not see buying a home, marriage or children in her near future, and she is happy with that."While I’m comfortable with not owning my own home, it’s completely out of reach for me financially."

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