Prague, Jan 16 (CTK) – About one third of adult Czechs are financially supported by their parents and one out of ten is supported by their grandparents daily Pravo writes Saturday, referring to a survey that Ipsos agency conducted in several countries for the Profi Credit company.
In Poland, about one third adult children are supported by their parents as well. In Slovakia and especially Bulgaria the number of people supported by parents is even higher, the paper writes.
Only 12 percent of adult children regularly send money to their parents, which is a lower number than in the other countries, and the average sum sent to the parents is 1800 crowns a month, while in the other countries it is an equivalent of some 3000 crowns, Dana Hakavcova, from Profi Credit, told Pravo.
Sixteen percent of adult Slovaks, nearly one fifth of Poles and 28 percent of Bulgarians support their parents.
The financial support is most often provided to parents by unmarried people and people with higher incomes.
About 17 percent of children older than 18 years live together with their parents in the Czech Republic. In Bulgaria and Slovakia the number is slightly lower, while in Poland it is slightly higher.
Hakavcova said people with higher incomes and divorced parents tend to live together with their adult children more often. Men stay in the household of their parents more often than women.
More than half of the adult children living with their parents already have a job, she said.
($1=24.756 crowns)
