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Category: boomerang kids
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Ever since the pandemic descended on us in March, there's been a noticeable uptick in an ongoing trend: Our adult kids are moving in with us. For some the reason is financial: the economy crashed and with it, their jobs. For others, it's emotional: the loneliness of living alone in a small apartment under quarantine…
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This is the emptying nest season. A lot of our kids have left for college and parents are wistful and lump-in-throat sad to see their empty place at the kitchen table. We wish they were still youngsters living under our roof. Or so we think. But four years hence, we may not be so thrilled…
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We may feel sad when our kids leave home, but even worse if they boomerang back.
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Canadian parents know what it takes to get their boomerang kids to move on and out: Pay them to do it.
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Two counter-intuitive reasons or explanations for why young adults are returning home to live: the guilty parties are the Internet and demographics
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Goldman Sachs explains the uptick in the percent of post-college kids living at home
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They're launched. They've finished college and are ready to set out into the world. We've brought them up to be independent, thoughtful individuals, of course. But they still may be babes in the woods when it comes to making the day-today financial decisions they face in their first few post-college years. Sometimes it helps to…
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Yet another confirmation of what many of us know: We are the generation that offers our grown children financial help. Pew Research Center's latest poll finds that one in 10 American adults receive money or financial assistance from their parents or other family members. The bulk of those receiving help are emerging adults–men and women…
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