Category: empty nests
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Reflections on how sudden–and scary–is the reality of children grown up and on their own.
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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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Our post-college daughters are re-filling our nests at a pace not seen since the 1940s.
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Goldman Sachs explains the uptick in the percent of post-college kids living at home
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Expressing our sense of loss when we drop our kids off at college–via our out-of-office email message.
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Am I my child’s repository? How to keep the warehousing of our children’s mementos in check.
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Our newly independent children may find it more difficult to launch themselves into adulthood than we thought they would.
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If you’re helping support your grown children, you are far from alone. The reach of the Bank of Mom and Dad continues to grow.
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Does father know best when it comes to career advice? Often, but not always.
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If we make it too comfortable for our young adult children to live at home, they may put off moving out and on.