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Scenario

How to support adult children when their economic reality differs from yours

My adult son moved back home after college and cannot find work in his field, and I want to support him but I also worked at eighteen and do not understand why he cannot just take any job.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Generational differences in labor markets and career expectations create confusion about appropriate support versus enabling, complicated by changing economic conditions.

Your guide for this
Rabia
Rabia works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Money and parenting — financial pressure and class?”

Peri

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