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Cost forces more men to live with parents

By Andrew Taylor, Employment Correspondent

Published: April 15 2009 14:42 | Last updated: April 15 2009 17:25

The proportion of young men living at home with their parents is growing in modern Britain, while young women are more likely to have a baby before the age of 25 than to get married.

The latest state of the nation report, published by the Office for National Statistics, reveals a country with a growing but ageing population, increasingly reliant on migrant workers but with more people living alone and families still struggling to pay inflated house prices in spite of the recent market decline.

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