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When You Keep Financially Supporting Your Adult Child

My son is 30 and still asks me for money regularly and I always give it to him but I'm worried I'm preventing him from becoming truly independent.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The desire to help conflicts with the recognition that continued support might be undermining growth and self-reliance.

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