The results of our poll are in.
If you read any media, you know that millennials mooching off Mom and Dad is quite the hot topic.
But how deserved is our societal hand-wringing about who's paying Hannah Horvath's AT&T bill? Over 138,000 self-identified twentysomethings took our poll last month about how much financial help they regularly receive from their parents.
Did poll takers exaggerate their level of fiscal independence to feel better about themselves? Was everyone who took the poll actually in his or her 20s? We'll never know, because this poll is about as scientific as a potato. But still, the results are revealing! Here's what we found.
A little more than half of twentysomethings pay for their own phone, whether they're on their own plan or they send their parents money for their share. Still, that's a lot who never have to look at an endlessly long Verizon bill.
72% of twentysomethings who took the poll say they live outside of the parents' house. But from the poll results, it seems like most parents-cum-landlords don't charge their children rent.
