I have my children at home while they go to uni and I am encouraging them to not leave until they have a stable income and have saved for their down payment to ensure housing. I really see no need to send them out to the world to struggle when they have a house and we can suppor them as much as we can. We don't ask them to contribute to the house, our priority is that they save as much as possible while they can. The day they decide to leave, hopefully they will do it with resources to provide for themselves. Though it is a cultural thing in large part, in my culture children are not expected to leave the parents house a certain age, so for us is absolutely normal having our children home and hopefully for them the benefits of staying home outweight the social pressure to leave when they are not ready yet.