Accordion Families & Boomerang Kids Discussion Question 11. What is an accordion family? What is boomerang child? Which countries have high rates of accordion families? Which countries have low rates? Ans: An accordion family is more extended than a nuclear family and is a structured where adult children live with their parents. A boomerang child is a child that leaved home for college and then come back to live with parents again..2. What is the role of social class in accordion families? Which social class have always had accordion families? Why?Ans: The blue-Collar working class families and the poor always have been accordion families because its safer to have income from different generations. The kids from those families have no choice but to stay home while they try to get in the labor market.3. What does failure to launch mean? Can you give an example of this term? How is this term different from accordion family?Ans: failure to launch means that those adult children cannot provide income for their selves, they are unable to stand on their own feet.The failure to launch is different from accordion family because it happens when the kids dont leave their parents home not even to go to college. In the accordion family the kids leaves home to go to college and then they come back to their parents home because they cannot find a safe and suitable job. ..the growth in the numbers of young adults in their late twenties and thirties who have never been independent in the first place. (Page 84: fourth paragraph) 4. ?Ans: The media blamed the helicopter parents and the psychiatrists to physiological reasons. Newman for her turn lists economic causes for this delayed departure such as international competition greater than it once was and several labor policies. 5. ?Ans: Newman talks about economic issues that are leading the delaine to adulthood to more distant horizons. International competition is enhancing and the labor market and policies are going to more restrictive.6. ?Ans: The accordion families that are serving for a bigger purpose are acceptable. The work ethic and the hope upward mobility are the two things required for an accordion family to be socially acceptable. If the adult kid of an accordion family is hiding in the basement playing videogames, that family will be considered deviant or problematic.

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