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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can you tell him to stop bringing his girlfriend home and to events. My kids aren't that old yet but I'm already annoyed thinking about the possibility. [/quote]

Of course a parent can do that, and it's excellent strategy to build a relationship with your adult kid where they want limited contact with you[/quote]

How adult are they at 21? Are you done paying for college and their living expenses?[/quote]

So rules are different if they've a full ride?[/quote]

I get, I guess, the my house my rules sentiment, but I will never understand the need to control your children's behavior until they are completely financially independent. Baffling [/quote]

To be fair, if they aren't financially independent the parents have to bear the consequences of their actions. [/quote]

That's not much of an argument. It's not even a good "to be fair." It seems then the argument is that they don't learn to make good choices or independent decisions until they're completely financially independent? That seems like a really bad idea.

And it's a straw man because we know that's not the reason parents are trying to  control behavior of adults. (And please do not come at me with they are not adults unless they're fully paying for absolutely everything. That is a specious argument)[/quote]

Why should 21-year-olds get treated with full adult privileges if they can't even support themselves?  We don't care to promote serious relationships before the kids are done with college and in a position to support themselves, so bringing a girlfriend or boyfriend home would be out of line.  [/quote]

Because it's theatrical and performative. Do stay at home parents not get treated as adults? Do people on disability not get adult privileges? How about thirty year old married couples who need a loan from their parents for a down payment?

You want to force your values on an adult child and use money to try to control it. It's never going to end well

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I have a great relationship with my parents, who didn't allow us to bring a boyfriend or girlfriend on vacations or sleep in the same room at their home before marriage.  My parents also didn't give me a loan for a downpayment at 30, but I did use the education they provided to get a good job and save my own money.  They did enforce their rules while I was on their dime during college and graduate school.  I respected their rules.  We remained close then and now.  All my siblings and I launched into real adults in our twenties who didn't need financial support from our parents after we graduated.  We all got married and had kids.  If your family values are different, fine, but our family values have worked very well for us and I intend to parent my own children in the same way.   [/quote]

What “values” ?… you haven’t mentioned any values in your post[/quote]

Why are you so worked up over this issue? So what if someone doesn't want their younger kids to normalize premarital sex because of an older kid's behavior, or they don't want their 21-year-old child still in college to have a long-term romantic partner that they can't separate from for a trip home to see mom and dad?  My friends let their high school kids bring boyfriends and girlfriends on family vacations and share rooms.  I'm not worked up over it, though it's not happening in our home.  The weird thing is that you are so aggravated that other people have different standards than you. [/quote]

Not aggravated, just asking "what value" which you still have not answered because you are too busy being defensive.

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