boomerang kid
English
Noun
boomerang kid (plural boomerang kids)
- (informal) A young adult who has moved back into the parental home after a period of independence.
- 1987, Jean Davies Okimoto and Phyllis Jackson Stegall, Boomerang Kids: How to Live with Adult Children Who Return Home, Little, Brown, →ISBN.
- 1998 July, Kimberly Lankford, “The Right Insurance at the Right Price” (magazine article), in Kiplinger’s Personal Finance, Volume 52, Number 7, Kiplinger Washington Editors, Inc., ISSN 1528-9729, page 79:
- Gerhard and Gale Kappe, an Oak Park, Ill., couple with two boomerang kids at home, could save more than $1,700.
- 2009, Barbara A. Mitchell, Family Matters: An Introduction to Family Sociology in Canada, Canadian Scholars' Press, →ISBN, page 198:
- And if you have left the “parental nest,” do you plan to return home as a boomerang kid once you complete your studies?
References
- Mitchell, B.A. (2007). The Boomerang Age: Transitions to Adulthood in Families. NJ: Transaction Publishers.
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