[stevio]

It's Biblical to stay with your parents until you're married.
I had a great relationship with my parents until my father died in '92. I lived with my mother in the house until I got married 4 years later at 31. I treasure that relationship we had and I hope to offer the same to my kids. As long as they are not mooches and capable of taking care of themselves.

[twigs]

It's also biblical that they who do not work do not eat. In our case, that would read, they who do not work does not have shelter (nor eat). I have a mooching 26-year-old step son with us. His dead mother wanted him to have everything he wanted and as a result, he's a total sloth. He will live off of us until we kick him out which his father won't do b/c of the memory of his dead first wife. Children need to leave! I've already told my 17-year-old daughter that she may stay as an adult IF she takes over all the housework and pays rent. We have a double standard which she recognizes. But, fortunately, she also recognizes that she does not which to become a mooching sloth.