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Questions tagged [adult-child]

Age specific questions from about 17 years and up. Younger: teen.

This is the final age specific tag, it covers questions about kids after they reach adulthood, so say from about 17 years of age or so up, or whatever the age of adulthood is in your local area.

As with any age specific tag, the edges are fuzzy between this and the previous tag: .

Rule of thumb: They may technically be a "adult" now, but they're still your baby.

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How can we manage our adult son taking back an item we confiscated, without our knowledge, when he has moved out?

My husband and I helped our son pay for an iPod Touch three years ago, paying $100. He paid the other half. About a year ago, our young daughter found images of nude girls in the screenshot gallery on the iPod. He lied when we asked him about it. We…
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How can we ask our 22-year-old son to leave?

I am 53 years old and my wife is 47 years old and we have a 22-year-old son. We have huge problems with him. He has changed universities three times and now he is in a college. He drops his courses, he is not interested in working, and he makes a…
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Parenting an adult child who has recently experienced great trauma

I am a parent to adult 'children'. I would appreciate any wisdom that can be shared. My youngest and his wife delivered a healthy, normal weight baby on their due date, but on the first full day at home, the baby started having difficulty keeping…
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How to handle a bully-daughter-in-law and a henpecked-son?

I'm a single mom for 2 kids. My husband passed a decade ago. Lets name my sons: Arno 34 and Bob 31. Both married, moved out and have a kid each. Bob and his family have settled relatively far away. But I do visit them and they visit me. Problem is…
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Good Mom or enabler?

I have 3 grown children. The middle child is 28 yo and left home for the "big city" about 5 years ago. My husband and I have watched her go from a happy, funny, creative young woman to an increasingly depressed and always struggling young woman. We…
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As a parent, what do I need to do when my adult child leaves home?

My firstborn will leave home soon and is off to study at a university a few hours away from home. Being a first, this is quite a new situation for me. What we (mostly she herself) have done so far is: Enlist at the university. Find a place in a…
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How should a child be prepared for adulthood?

How can parents best prepare their children for the difficult task of choosing a profession, and dealing with all of the (frequently tedious) steps involved in making that career happen? The typical jobs most children will wind up having will set…
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How can I keep our son out of our life

Our son has now taken the peace of our life and it has started affecting my professional life as well. He is 18 and is scheduled to start the university this fall. In the last year and half his behavior has changed dramatically spending more than 12…
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adult child refuses to discuss his future. parents are moving, and he has no plan

22 yr old refuses any topic related to what it takes for him to be on his own. He will ignore, be sarcastic, and do nothing. Has a job but not enough money to be on his own. He has a car, a phone, health insurance and pays for phone & car insurance.…
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What to do with my spoil (GROWN) children

When my children (2 boys 2 years apart) were born, I was working and the children were left in the care of their father. He is not the best role model; his constant drinking and gambling has been a issue our entire marriage. My fault, I feel, in all…
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Should an adult child live with parents?

In India, it is a common practice for adults to live with their parents. Why is it frowned upon in USA? Is it a good practice?
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How to approach mother about moving away from home?

I'm 25 and have lived with my mom alone for almost 20 years (my older brother brother moved out 8 years ago.) My mom always pampered me, didn't make me work summers, etc. At the local university, I didn't really do well with the freedom (though I…
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My adult daughter is a heavy smoker because of me, is there anything I can do?

My daughter started smoking pretty early, stealing cigarettes from me. Throughout her teens I allowed her to smoke and even provided cigarettes to her. I thought that fighting her habit would be both kind of hypocritical of me (since I was also a…
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