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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.
Category: health insurance
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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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In these hard economic times, grown kids may need to shelter in their parents’ house. Do you set a deadline for how long they’re welcome?
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The health reform law that passed this year has important provisions for parents of young adult children–even married adult children.
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Paterfamilias and I had dinner with friends the other night–friends whose oldest child is about to graduate from college. They are recovering from the $50,000 a year it's been costing them and looking forward to his independence, particularly his financial independence. He doesn't, of course, know exactly what he wants to do. He's hoping to…
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