The idea of single working class children moving out and living their own life is modern. Most people stayed at home, sharing a bed with at least one sibling until they couild afford to get married, and even then a lot of working class couples lived with their in laws or parents.
Plus accommodation is now much dearer in real terms and young peoples wages cannot always stretch to that.
AND frankly what IS wrong with a family all pulling together and depending on each other? Who else should be there for us?
Jehovahs witlesses often throw their kids out on the street. They have no real sense of FAMILY. (They define a family as a husband and wife - forget your cousins, siblings, grandparents, uncles, aunties - especially if they dont buy the cult)
And I agree that we didnt start out with much. When I got my first tiny apartment, I slept on the floor, did my weekly wash in the bath, walking up and down over the clothes (Icouldnt afford a w. machine, or to pay at the laundromat) I cooked on a one ring electric hob, slept on the floor, and used fruit crates to put things in instead of shelves.