Category: supporting adult children
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They are a two-car family living in an affluent neighborhood. With her son, a junior at college, home for the summer, a friend was sharing her car with him. Though he had been unable to get a regular job, he had cobbled together a coaching business with a friend: the two–both college-level athletes–were tutoring neighborhood…
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A friend, whose 23-year-old son has been looking for a job for six months now, has been through several stages of search anguish. He's a graduate of a top college where he got good grades. Last year, a long search brought forth a one-year, low-paying internship with a nonprofit group. That ended in August. He…
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I am having lunch with a friend when I ask about her son, one year out of college: Did he get the job he was applying for? As far as she knew, the answer was no. Or possibly, not yet. Her son, she says, is incommunicado on the subject of job hunting. She's tried to…
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Her son is 24, graduate of a good college where he got good grades and behaved well–well, well enough so that nothing shows on his record. Even his Facebook account is 'clean." But finding a job since he's gotten out of school: tough going. He's in that cohort I wrote about in a previous post:…
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The Great Recession has upped the amount of support parents are giving their grown children–and the percentage of parents being called on to do so.
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Tough economic setting for college grads looking for jobs.
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When our kids feign indifference to job hunting, it doesn’t mean they are slackers. Many parents are helping to support their kids through the hard economic times.
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She's a doctor; he's a lawyer. They've both done very well–financially and otherwise. Their only child–a son–has taken a different road. He's living his dream career: he's a firefighter, studying to be an emergency medical technician. I've never heard the parents complain about his life choice–except when their son was called up during the war…
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The question was as abrupt as it was surprising: "Do you help your kids out?" It came from a friend we've discussed money matters with before. Our answer was as brief as it was open-ended: "We do, but it depends." The friend who asked the question, says he does not. "I believe in fostering independence.…
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when the grown kids move back home, it’s no easier for them than it is for you. some tips on easing the pain.
