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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.

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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.

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

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