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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are two posts in the relationship forum re: dud husbands/wives, so I thought I'd start one here for dud children. Anyone willing to admit they have dud adult kids? I married a dud (divorced), and I feel like my kids are turning out to be dud'ish like him. It makes me so sad because I suspect that dud-like behavior is hereditary. For the record, three boys, 20, 22 and 26. [/quote]

Isn't it too early to label a 20 year old as a dud? [/quote]

Yes but not a 26 year old. The only dud kids i know are male. Two in their 50s still mooching off parents and two in their late 20s living at home with mediocre jobs. [/quote]

It’s ok to have a “mediocre” job, someone has to do these jobs
It’s ok to live with parents as long as parents are ok with it
Doesn’t sound like duds to me [/quote]

Weird. These are textbook definitions of duds. Dud is synonymous with failure to launch, and still living at home at 50 while parent mooching is failure to launch at its finest.[/quote]

I never said anything about mooching. Having a job, contributing to the household, helping parents while living with them - how is that bad?
Better than forgetting them at a nursing home for sure [/quote]

I don't recall any examples of people who are happily married with kids and gainfully employed whiling living with elderly parents being considered duds[/quote]

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