Reasons for young adults' returning to the parental shelters I’ll try to cite some of the reasons for young adults’ flocking back to the nest. First of all, marriage age is rising, a condition that makes home and its pleasantness especially attractive to these young people. Moreover, both a high divorce rate and a declining remarriage rate send those economically stressed and emotionally hurt survivors back to parental shelters. For some, the expense of away-from-home college education is so high that quantities of students prefer to attend local schools. Even after graduation, some of them find their wings clipped by the skyrocketing housing costs.