(Bloomberg) -- A record share of young women in the U.S. livedat home last year and the economy had little do with it.
Some 36.4% of women age 18 to 34 lived with their parentsor relatives in 2014, the highest since records began in 1940,according to a report released Wednesday by Pew Research Center in Washington. Whilethe share of young men was even greater at42.8%, it wasn't quite as high as it was some 75 yearsago.
"The result is a striking U-shaped curve for young women – andyoung men – indicating a return to the past, statisticallyspeaking," Richard Fry, senior researcher at the Pew ResearchCenter, wrote in the report. But "the reasons that more women todayare living with mom and dad are far different."
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