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Nearly half of parents fear they need to delay retirement plans to financially support their adult children... well into...

With more young people leaving the family home later than previous generations, parents expect their children to move out around the age of 26.

What to Do When Adult Children Pull Away Because You Keep Parenting Them

There is a particular heartbreak that parents experience as their children grow older. It’s a difficult, hard-to-define, push-pull kind of feeling that’s a mixture of happiness, sa...

RBC Survey: 1 in 5 Parents of 35 to 40-Year-Olds Are Still Helping Pay the Bills

- - • Nearly one in three (32%) Canadian parents say their adult children aged 18-40 are not yet financially independent, including nearly one in five (19%) parents of adult ch...

New Canadian ‘family plan’: Parents financially supporting adult children

A new survey found that 51% of Canadian parents 'have provided financial support to an adult child in the past year, giving an average of $6,151.'

Parents With Nothing Saved Inherit $340,000 — Their Adult Child Wants Control of the Money

Imagine your parents have reached retirement age with virtually nothing saved when an unexpected inheritance of $340,000 suddenly lands in their laps. Instead of feeling...

Living with Adult Children Linked to Greater Life Satisfaction for Active Older People

Older adults who live with their grown-up children report greater life satisfaction when they stay productively engaged in meaningful activities, a study of 331 people aged 60 and...

How Adult Children Can Support Aging Parents From a Distance

Learn how to support aging parents from a distance with communication tips, local care networks, health planning, and meaningful family visits.

One in five parents still funding adult kids aged 35 to 40, RBC poll finds

New RBC data reveals how far parental financial support now extends into adulthood and what it means for advisors and their clients

3 Reasons Struggling Adult Children Feel So Invisible

They get the worry, advice, and attention, yet why do so many struggling adult children feel invisible?

My adult kids are thriving hundreds of miles away. I'm proud of them and heartbroken at the same time.

My adult children are thriving in New York and Chicago. Their independence makes me proud, but saying goodbye still leaves me grieving.

What Young Adults Living at Home Reveal about Family, Independence, and Grace

What Young Adults Living at Home Reveal about Family, Independence, and Grace

Crowded nest? How parents and their adult kids can live together in peace

With record numbers of adult children living at home with their parents, how can this arrangement work for everyone? Set ground rules from the off, respect each other’s privacy, an...

Helping an Adult Child Who Lost a Job: The Support Choices That Quietly Wreck Your Own Retirement

When your adult child calls to say they’ve lost their job, the instinct to help can be immediate. You may have savings, a paid-off house,...

What Happens to Siblings When Parents Age

As parents age, old sibling dynamics can resurface. How families handle caregiving, conflict, and forgiveness can shape the years ahead.

The awkward moment when parenting turns into landlord-tenant law

For many parents, having a grown child move back home starts out as a kindness. Maybe it was a job loss, a breakup, or a plan to save money for a few months. Then the months turn i...

Parents Gave $26.6 Billion

About 2.6 million U.S. parents provided $26.6 billion in financial support to 3.7 million children 21 or over who lived outside their households, according to the U.S. Census Burea...

Parents Are Sacrificing Their Own Savings to Help Adult Kids — When Is It Too Much?

Helping an adult child with rent after a layoff can feel completely different from paying their cellphone bill for the tenth year in a row,...

Gift Tax: The Tax Implications of Supporting Adult Children

Do you currently have adult children who are not your dependents living under your roof? If you are supporting adult children, or […] The post Gift Tax: The Tax Implications of Sup...

How to Stop Worrying About Your Adult Child: 9 Helpful Steps

As parents, we don’t always think about how our relationship with our children will change once they become adults. We look forward to the day when they can make their own decision...

Sowing the Seeds of Estrangement

As adult children establish independence, fathers who struggle to accept changing beliefs and values may inadvertently deepen emotional distance and risk lasting estrangement.

When “Mom, You Just Do It Better” Becomes a Way of Life

You host Thanksgiving every year, and probably a variety of other events. Your son, a capable man who runs a department of 40 people, always offers to bring something (because you...

Adult children cutting off parents as some blame therapy for family estrangements

Richard Blake says therapy culture has raised the bar on parenting and may fuel parent-child estrangement through an overcorrection in cutoff culture.

Moving on and Final Advice for Parents Raising Kids

The concluding installment of Once Upon a Child.