Can You Tell a Story About Your Parents? More than 90% of teenagers and young adults can retell family stories when asked, even if they seemed uninterested when the stories were told the quote refers to a study in which young adults in the US were asked to recall a story a parent had told them about a time when the parent was young of the 260 young adults around age 18) who were asked, 244 of them were able to recall such a story.