A bed, maybe, but “travel and entertainment”??? These people must be wearing tee shirts with “Door Mat” on them.
Sam Zahn?
How about zero? The economy is terrible, the cost of living is through the roof and it is completely understandable that these days that people won't be able to be self-sufficient the day they get out of college.
But the idea of parents paying for things like travel and entertainment is beyond ridiculous. If I found myself in such a situation I'd be grateful to be given a place to stay (I'd also expect to pay rent along with doing whatever chores I was responsible for while living at home before). I can't imagine expecting to be entertained at parents expense.
Not only no but **** NO!
You can live in amoral sin on your own dime sonny boy.
I will not sanction your sin with my willing acceptance and financial support.
Any adult child of mine would find a home with us - under certain conditions.
Must be working and contributing to the household expenses (he or she can work at Burger King until the “right” job comes along, too), or is ill or has sustained injuries and needs help.
No live-in “friends,” either!
Both work and both pay rent and do chores and most DEFINITELY are not allowed to have the opposite sex living here or even staying the night...
Maybe have the son move back in. But also girlfriend? No way.
LOL...T&E!....not even a tax write off for these idiot parents
Oh, what a blessing it has been for me and Mrs. Repeal for the last two years.
After struggling though some financial and job misfortunes,
our middle child, his wife, and their two kids moved in with us.
They have gotten back on their feet and will soon be moving out on their own.
These last two years of watching my grand kids grow up has been marvelous.
I would not have traded it for anything in the world.
And how much additional debt is he racking up to pay for grad school? How many more years will he be unable to support himself because he is paying off student loans? No mention of what he's studying, but if he can't get a job with a 4 year degree, will his outlook be better with a Masters or PHD? But since mom is a "nonprofit director" she probably shares the liberal fetish for higher eduction, regardless of the cost and benefits thereof.
Heh, would anybody on here find it funny if I said my mom moved in with me for a few months? How often do you hear about that happening?
As to the subject of the story, is anyone besides me wondering if these kids futures would’ve turned out differently if they understood that there would no longer be any free rides after they hit eighteen?
It’s obama’s folking fault
Maybe the parents are to blame? Anybody feel the parents did an inadequate job of explaining how to, and the many benefits of, living independently?
At any rate, the girl friend should go. The parents are just enablers.
Only one of the girls has ever moved back in and that was after 8 years in the Navy, she stayed about 2 months until she found a job. Second oldest lives in Wyoming and here and her husband are doing fine. The Youngest is headed to BYU for her Masters this fall but she never had time to come home. She was on Mission with the church.
It was different for boys, but my brother continued to live with my parents. He didn't leave home until he married — at age 50.
My adult daughter, her husband and their brand-new (10 days old) baby live with us. He was laid off and then let go a week before they were married, totally unexpected. He found a job fairly soon, but as an apprentice and at less than half the pay he had been getting. They were doing okay, but could not get out of the pretty bad area of town they were in, and their savings was eaten up after he lost his job. My husband and I actually asked them to move in with us, to give them time to save money for a down payment on a home. They may be here for another 2 or 3 years, but we are fine with that. Honestly, I feel blessed to have them here.
However, this works both ways. This relationship often evolves into their children working as servants, cooks, a laundry service, drivers and house cleaners for their parents, thus either saving their parents a lot of money, or facing great difficulty getting to medical appointments, eating poor quality microwave food, living in filth and squalor, etc.
Having adult children living with their parents may effectively extend the lives of their parents by decades.
If the children have employment beyond this, it still costs them years of not being married or having children, but gives them an opportunity to erase college debts, and save up money on the chance that they will be able to afford marriage and children, which fewer and fewer are able to afford these days.