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Some links to help if your grown child has cut off contact with you.
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A weekend visit from a grown son and his family makes the whole house feel lively, and its chief residents, too.
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Spare your children the angst and let them know how you plan to distribute your assets once you’re gone.
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Your spending habits may be alarming your grown children. King Lear may offer a cautionary tale on bequests and living legacies.
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Try to keep your emotional distance when your grown child has a serious romantic relationship,
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Most of the stuff I read on kids moving back home with their parents focuses on the challenges for the parents: The loss of privacy; the need to share personal space; the noise level that seems to keep rising; the questions over who pays for what. I could go on–and you can read all about…
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Hard times are here and there are lots of changes afoot: parents and their grown children are finding themselves more economically inter-dependent. Between 2000 and 2007, according to the U.S. Census, the number of parents living with an adult head of household increased by 67 percent. The numbers for 2008 and 2009 are bound to…
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