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What happens when young adults swap independents for family care?
Full time children, the term for those who live with their parents, managing the home in exchange for support, are now questioning if it's time to leave the nest for good.
Well, is it time to quit?
And then we turn to the highly competitive robot vacuum market where these robo cleaners fly off the shelves, yet still struggling to turning a profit.
Coming to you live from Beijing, this is Roundtable.
I'm Heung.
For today's program, I'm joined by Steve Hatherly and Yu Shun in the studio.
First on today's show, the term full time offspring or full time children first gained traction in late 2022, sparking widespread discussion on social media platforms and then mainstream media outlets.
In it refers to the phenomenon where young adults return to live with their parents, taking on household chores and caregiving duties in exchange for financial support from parents.
Now, nearly two years later, a shift has emerged.
Many of these so called full time children are expressing online a desire to step away from their domestic roles and possibly reenter the workforce.
So Steve, when you first saw this term full time children during our status.
Meeting, were you a little puzzled just by the terminology?
Yeah, I didn't know what a full time.
I mean, I thought I was a full time child growing up.
I was always a child to my parents, so that's what the term meant to me.
But then, yeah, as I learned a little bit more about it and the reasons behind why kids are going back to stay with their parents again, then I understood further and we have terms in North America or in the west that are somehow related, but still not quite exactly the same.
Boomerang kids.