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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am not sure where we went wrong as parents. We have two kids: 26 and 28. Both are college grads and one even has a masters degree. Neither has a full time job that has anything to do with their degrees. Both live outside the home but we support them paying for rent and health insurance. Yes we feel badly about it but we can afford it. At what point does it stop though? [/quote]

We aim to spare them some suffering that we or our siblings had at their age. We also wanted to not create unnecessary obstacles to health, safety, and academic or career success.

For us, paying for their health insurance until 26 was a no brainer. I have health issues now that had their roots in losing my parents health insurance at 22 and not getting it again until I married at 29 although I worked multiple jobs. We could spare our kids that at little extra cost so we did/will (last two are 17 currently).

With the older two, we didn’t pay rent, but covered their portion of the cell phone plan and some other fixed monthly expenses like internet until they had FT jobs. SS needed reliable home internet for law school and studying for the bar. Technically, older DD is still on our plan, but she Venmos her share each month. [/quote]

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