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Category: emerging adulthood
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Will the surveys never stop? Here's another one–this time from Ameriprise Financial–on how generous we baby boomers are toward our grown-up children–and how worried we are about their future financial security and ours. A December 2011 survey of baby boomers with $100,000 or more in investable assets reports that nine out of ten–93 percent–say they…
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The travel section of a newspaper isn't the most likely place to find a story on a major parental adjustment. Dominque Browning managed to turn a trip to Boulder into a tale of her first journey, as a newly minted empty nester, to her youngest son's new nest and her recognition that she was no…
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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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They're back. And they like the living conditions. According to a recent Pew Research Center poll, 68% of young adults ages 18 to 34 who are living with their parents or have moved back in temporarily because of economic conditions say they are very satisfied with their family life. (Roughly a similar proportion–73%–who are not…
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"Why haven't our kids been able to get ahead in their careers?" a friend mutters. Her son is a filmmaker; her friend's son is a food photographer. Both men are in their 40s. Both men are being supported all or in part by their parents. Both parents wonder whether they should be paying the bills…
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