It's my pleasure to welcome you here to the Clark Howard show.

You know, our mission is to serve you with information that empowers you to make smart financial decisions in your life.

And I want to thank you again for all the support you may have given in prior years or this year for our Clark's Christmas

Kids campaign in its 33rd year because of you kids in foster care are going to have gifts Christmas morning where usually they

would have a big fat nothing.

So I appreciate it so very much. It's not too late to donate. All you do is you go

to Clark's Christmas kids.com and whatever you can afford I appreciate it very much on behalf of these children who did nothing wrong.

The adults in their lives let them down and it's so important that we let these kids know that they're not

forgotten, that they're loved, that they're cared about even by an absolute

stranger, you and me. Speaking of giving money, there's an old

expression charity begins at home. So the question is if you have kids are you supporting them as adults? I'm going to

share some stats with you that may surprise you. Also when you hear a news report, see a news report, read a news report about a security issue or the latest hottest hottest scam.

Do you pay any attention?

If you do, you're the rare one.

I'll tell you what motivates people

to pay attention to security breaches and scams and the rest, the answer may surprise you when we actually

do pay attention.

So right now I want to talk about something that is real and happening right now.

Survey finds two-thirds of American parents are providing financial support to adult children all the way up to age 40.

What are they giving? Over $700 a month to each adult child, on average,

of the parents doing it.

A third of them, survey says, and all this is in a USA Today article, a third of those

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