Adult children at home.
Cody Gabriel
10/01/07




The book talked about adult children that like to come back home and live with there parents. One mother was Ruth Patterson the mother of four children that are adults and have careers. Three of her four children returned home. There’s her oldest daughter Suzanne, 35, a bank teller, came back home after a painful divorce. Second their daughter Lesley, 30, has moved in and out of their house several times. Third is their son peter, 28, spent a year at home working on a painting crew while he and his fiancée saved money for the down payment on a house. Then theirs Dan, he was 18 and heading off to the state university. Adult children have been living back at home with there parents in increasing numbers in recent years.

Dan, now 24, has followed the route his parents expected. He graduated from college, found a job teaching high- school social studies, and lives on his own in a city apartment. There are other examples in the book about an adult child living back home. First Tony said he was mess financially when I moved back in with his mom and dad; Tony was a 28-years-old stereo equipment sales-man. After two years of living with his parents, Tony controlled his spending habits and was determined to keep it that way. Second is Judy Loewen, 31, moved back with her family for a mouth after breaking up with her long- time boyfriend. Third is Vicki Langella, 32, who lived with her parents for six mouths after losing her job as a word processor. Bill Robinson, a widower whose 35- year-old son has been sharing the house for the last two years. Ella Purcell, whose two adult daughters have both returned home for brief periods, of time.

Parents often struggle with asking their children for rent, and stay in order to save money. Adult children should pay room and board to help them grow in financial independence. Parents need to increase the household duties. From at experienced mother, have your child do the share of the laundry, grocery- shopping, and cleaning duties. The book talked about how to respect one another. Those children should not expect to be treated as guests or to use the parental home as a hotel, coming and going at all hours with no explanation. Parents need to know that they are not little and activities need constant supervision. Don’t let it go forever. Tentative date for him to move out is good. If that date is changed later by the mutual consent of everyone concerned, that’ ok, but everyone should understand that this isn’t a permanganate arrangement. In conclusion the story should me some that I need the no when am an adult and to spend my money the right way.