boomerang kid

English

Noun

boomerang kid (plural boomerang kids)

1. (originally US, informal) A young adult who has moved back into the parental home after a period of independence.

   Synonyms: boomerang baby, boomerang child, boomeranger

   • 1987, Jean Davies Okimoto, 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?

Translations

young adult who moved back into parental home

• Dutch: boemerangkind (nl) n

See also

• failure to launch

References

• Mitchell, B.A. (2007). The Boomerang Age: Transitions to Adulthood in Families. NJ: Transaction Publishers.

Further reading

• Boomerang Generation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “boomerang kid, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.