Prolonged Coresidence: Difficulties and Benefits of Israeli Arab Emerging Adults Who Live with Their Parents

Abstract

This qualitative study focuses on Israeli Arab emerg ing adults who live at home with their parents, and explores their experience as to the benefits and difficulties of prolonged coresidence. Semi-structured open interviews were conducted with 16 Arab emerg ing adults (8 women, 8 men), who live at home with their parents. Findings reveal that most participants live with their parents out of respect to cultural norms. While doing so they experience amb ivalence: The benefits are family support and convenient living conditions, the difficulties include liv ing according to social expectations, dealing with parents' criticism, and issues related to the generation gap.It's appears that the Arab emerging adults are making their way in a changing society, and a great deal o f their obstacles at home with their parents is related directly to a society in transition.

Prolonged Co-Generational Living: The Case of Israeli Arab Parents and Their Emerging Adult Children

“…It is possible that by living at home, and hence by fulfilling the parents' expectation not to leave before marriage, the Arab parents experience obedience from their children, which is an important value in the Arab family. A recent study (Dor & Hallifa-Yunnis, 2016), focused on the experience of Israeli Arab emerging adults who live with their parents. The findings revealed that the need to conform to the social expectation that children live in their parents' home until marriage, gives these emerging adults a degree of comfort, as their parents are satisfied that they fulfill society's norms.…”