A Newsweek story this week titled says that “legions of parents still supporting their twentysomethings have created a whole new breed of child — the adultolescent…. To some, all this support and protection — known as “scaffolding” among the experts — looks like an insidious form of co-dependence.”
My three twenty-something sons have yet to return home once they left. But I can imagine us taking them in if they got into a jam – personal or financial. Life here would not be easy, though. I think our motivation would not be to help them “get ahead” like some of the parents profiled in the article, but strictly to help get their shit together and get the hell out of the house and back on their own two feet.