The Asian phenomenon of living in with ageing parents in a 'joint-family' is crawling into the British order with young couples moving back to share the same roof with their parents.
Incapacitating costs of housing in the country has pushed 'boomerangers' - to redefine the family system. These 'multi-family' households surged by nearly 66 per cent in the past decade from 194,000 in 2006 to 323,000 this year.
Couples are choosing to cohabit as single partners or civil partners and those living together has doubled in the past two decades.
Married couples raising children have fallen from 5.2 to 4.8 million and the proportion of one child families has increased from 42% to 45% during the same period.
A study conducted by Lloyds Bank showed that prices for top end houses dropped by about 7% in the past two years.
There has seen substantial movement in house sales in the lower segment during the same period, thereby aiding the younger buyers to jump onto the property ladder.
