The Generation Waiting Game: Responding to Gen Y's delayed lifestages
Jason Mander
A generation in waiting
Popular culture has long played on the idea of the grown-up teenager reluctant to fly the family nest or sever the financial support strings with their parents. But for some time now, this has been a trend in flux – it's no longer just teens looking for prolonged forms of familial support; many 20- and even 30-somethings have been relying ever more heavily on their parents (and wider family) as Gen Ys grapple with challenging economic, housing and employment markets and are forced to...