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How to Balance Helping Adult Children and Your Own Retirement

I want to help my adult daughter buy a house but my financial advisor says it will hurt my retirement and I feel torn between being a good parent and being responsible.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Competing moral obligations create an impossible choice between self-care and care for others.

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