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Posts Tagged ‘living with parents’

“Trust Me” reviewed on MacKenzie site

Sunday, September 27th, 2009 by Mackenzie

Found on AdultADDandMoney.com:
With our struggling economy many more adult children feel like they are being forced to ask their parents for financial help. On September 30th, a new reality show called “Bank of Mom and Dad” will air on the SoapNet cable network. Each week the show will deal a 20 something women who parents [...]

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When Adult Kids Move Home

Monday, June 8th, 2009 by Ken Kaye

“If you’re going to let a young adult move home, then you should at least have some rules about what’s what. Blog post by Gail Vaz-Oxlade.

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Caught in the Safety Net

Monday, June 8th, 2009 by Attn:Money

Joyce Wadler writes in the New York Times (May 14): “When hard economic times force adults to move back into their parents’ homes, the move is rarely without tensions.”
Wadler’s article includes interviews with numerous individuals and couples well into their 30s, some with young children.
According to the Census Bureau, as of last year there were [...]

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Insensitive advice

Monday, June 1st, 2009 by Ken Kaye

Here’s an example of bad ADD advice to a 25-year-old college grad who sounds like his ADD (which may be the cause of his depression, or an additional problem) has paralyzed him with regard to work and money.
The advice columnist, Salon’s Cary Tennis, is apparently clueless about adult ADD as well as arrogant in his [...]

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