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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m 50 and in all my life have never known anyone to support their parents financially. Some help their parents as a caretaker due to health issues but not in financial ways.  [b]However, I know a lot of people who were still getting financial help from parents in their 30s and 40s.[/b] Sometimes it’s buying a house and other times it’s paying for private school. [/quote]

Ugh, that's just pathetic. [/quote]

If I knew people who were supported by their aging parents, after a certain age (probably about age 30), I would not look at them the same as if they were not supported by their aging parents.  Once you become an adult, you have to do for yourself.  If you can't afford the new car, new kitchen, private schools, etc. - then you do without. That is what a grown up is about. [/quote]

We have close friends who receive support from DH's parents. Both worked in demanding professional jobs for a number of years. She now works from home and he is on a fellowship at an agency. They are pretty modest with their spending and are genuinely generous with their time and money. Somehow it doesn't bother me as it might with other folks who were more flagrant with and less honest about their resources.  [/quote]

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