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recent posts
- Sharing Family History: What one generation owes another.
- Gifting and Getting: A wish list for gifts from grandkids
- Blast from the Past: Our youthful slang is no longer passé.
- Money Matters: Data on how the Bank of Mom and Dad is doing?
- After the Minneapolis Killings: Nora Ephron on parenting grown children
© Penelope Lemov and Parenting Grown Children, 2025. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this site’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given.
recent posts
- Sharing Family History: What one generation owes another.
- Gifting and Getting: A wish list for gifts from grandkids
- Blast from the Past: Our youthful slang is no longer passé.
- Money Matters: Data on how the Bank of Mom and Dad is doing?
- After the Minneapolis Killings: Nora Ephron on parenting grown children
© Penelope Lemov and Parenting Grown Children, 2025. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this site’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given.
Category: bank of mom and dad
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If we favor one child over another financially–even because one is needy and one is not–sibling rivalry can rear its ugly head and upset a family’s balance.
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Is there a price to pay if we decide we have enough money to live happily and pay our bills? Is there a bigger price if we don’t?
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The Brits put a number on how much money it costs parents if their adult children move back home.It’s not chump change.
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A brat allowance–open access to the bank of mom and dad–is not only the worst possible way to help out our grown kids financially, but it can be habit forming.
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When are our children financially independent adults? A British survey offers a surprising answer.
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The loan officers at the Bank of Mom and Dad may find it’s better to gift money to a child in need than lend it.
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The view from a grown son on the perils of too much parental support and the bad vibes of entitlement
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We are not alone in doling out financial help to our 20- and 30-somethings. The Brits do it for even longer.
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