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When your adult child chooses an unsustainable career

My daughter chose a career path I know will never pay enough to support herself and she gets angry when I express concern about her financial future.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The tension between respecting your child's autonomy to make their own choices and the anxiety of watching them choose apparent hardship.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Launching adult children?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.