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Category: supporting adult children
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If we’re at all like Canadian parents, we’re postponing retirement to earn the extra bucks to ease the financial road for our grown kids.
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We’re the generous generation when it comes to helping our grown kids. Are we also an historical anomaly?
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Helping handouts to our adult children have their limits, but where and what they are is not an exact science.
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It’s the same around the world: When it comes to money, parents of grown children prefer the helping hand to tough love.
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A financial assist for an adult child can still keep your estate whole for the rest of the heirs.
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Research suggests there’s a mood boost to indulging our grown children–even if others think we’re spoiling them rotten.
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Parenting never ends, and that’s particularly true when it comes to financial support.
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When our child’s choice of a life partner is not to our liking, it may be our fault–and Darwin’s.