If you could provide for your kids

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Hope so

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It sounds like a way to control something in your life-I would explore that with a good therapist.

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Anonymous wrote:I know a woman in real life who is essentially trying to make it so her kids never, ever leave home and it is so sad to watch. Mentally healthy parents want to see their kids differentiate and grow and establish their own lives.

No, sorry! The entirety of human kind has had multigenerational families. This separation is a symptom of a spoiled America, and it’s damaging in so many ways to all involved.

Yes, a healthy parent wants their child to succeed and be self sufficient, but that’s about that.

Unfortunately Americans have this all wrong, and so many of them suffer from mental illness and take a ton of pills. For many it could be avoided by having larger and reliant families.

Yes, sorry! The OP literally says “so they never have to go to college or work.” What is self-sufficient about that? And Lord help me if I lived with either my parents or in-laws for the entirety of my adulthood. I would need all the pills.

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Anonymous wrote:No. Human beings need to be productive. They spiral when they are not.

+1. Lack of purpose in life brings depression, anxiety and general unhappiness- that can affect future generations too.

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Anonymous wrote:So they never have to go to college or work will you?

My kids are 5 and a few months, and I wouldn’t mind them living with them till I die, why do people want them to move out at a young age?

I'd provide for them and hope they would do college. Education is a value beyond just getting a job. But, as for employment, they'd have the means to do whatever they want and not just follow the money. I would have loved a career in non-profits but that just was not an option when I got out of school. My loans were high and I could not live on $30K/year or less, which was the salary range for me at the time.