Out: Empty-nest syndrome. In: Full-nest syndrome?
It concluded that most middle-aged parents with young adult children are fairly happy to help them out, and they understand that getting started in life is simply more difficult now.
Some research has suggested that age 25 is the new 22; that substantially more parents now don’t even expect their kids to be financially independent in their early 20s, and don’t mind helping them through some difficult times.
But the response to helping adult parents who, at the same time, need increasing amounts of assistance is not as uniformly positive, the study found – it can be seen as both a joy and a burden, and in any case was not something most middle-aged adults anticipated.
Many middle-aged people said it was difficult to make any plans, due to anxiety and uncertainty about a parent’s health at any point in time.
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Nobody knows which came first, the chicken or the egg. Tonight, we discovered that the egg came before the nest.
trigon on January 28, 2013 at 10:52 PM
Wait until later this year, we’ll all be nesting with our neighbors in an effort to stay alive.
Bishop on January 28, 2013 at 10:52 PM
My generation is pathetic and unprepared for anything. I’ve got friends my age who have not been of of the house yet.
smoothsailing on January 29, 2013 at 5:06 AM
That’s not even funny anymore.
People really have forgotten how long in history families had to sleep crammed into one house and how many siblings had to sleep in one room. It stank, quite literally sometimes.
MelonCollie on January 29, 2013 at 10:08 AM