"More 18 to 34 year-olds are living at home than any other living arrangement" because the government has supplanted the husband in the American nuclear family. Wednesday's AT featured a blog by Rick Moran titled "More 18 to 34-year-olds are living at home than any other living arrangement," which speculated attribution of the phenomenon to later marriages in the demographic, a poor economy, and few available jobs. But the later marriages are not a cause;  they are an effect.  The cause of the later marriages is the War on Poverty, as amply illustrated in a report by The Heritage Foundation titled "How Welfare Undermines Marriage and What to Do About It."  Under the heading "Penalizing Marriage," author Robert Rector states: [T]he means-tested welfare system actively penalizes low-income parents who do marry.  All means-tested welfare programs are designed so that a family's benefits are reduced as earnings...(Read Full Article)