Crucial Conversations When Adult Children Move Home
Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 October 2020
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
If your adult child moves back home, it's important to communicate your expectations from the start. John and Danny discuss keys to healthy relationships with adult children. Find us online at focusonthefamily.com/parentingpodcast. Or, call 1-800-A-FAMILY.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for downloading the Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast. You can find more helpful advice at |
| 0:06.8 | Focus on the Family.com. |
| 0:11.0 | Well, according to research, young adults today are marrying and having children later in life. |
| 0:17.0 | In fact, the Pew Research Center found 52% of young people live under their parents roof. |
| 0:25.0 | Now maybe you finally became empty nesters and then, whoops, one of your kids moved back home to save money or search for a job. I'm John Fuller along with |
| 0:35.2 | Danny Werta who leads our parenting and youth department here at Focus on the |
| 0:39.0 | family and Danny this is a really common thing these days. It's a tough economy. Things are hard. |
| 0:45.0 | It's important to communicate expectations when our adult kids move back in. |
| 0:51.0 | What are some of your observations about the kinds of things to cover in a conversation? |
| 0:57.0 | Yeah, it is tricky and it's one out of every two right now. One out of every two adults 18 to 29 is the most updated |
| 1:06.7 | stat and so parents are definitely crossing this this this path with their kids. |
| 1:12.1 | Really it's about finances in the home. Are they going to pay |
| 1:16.0 | rent? Are they going to be contributors rather than consumers coming in? It's not, you're |
| 1:21.1 | not coming in to a hotel or apartment complex you're coming back home at a |
| 1:26.0 | different stage of your life and that's important for them to know it's not hey I'm |
| 1:30.6 | an adult I'm just coming in yeah you're coming back home into the same home |
| 1:34.8 | you grew up in. |
| 1:36.2 | And so a lot of those things don't change |
| 1:38.2 | as far as being a contributor, but as an adult, |
| 1:41.0 | you have to still respect the beliefs and values we have in our home, not bringing |
| 1:45.2 | people to opposite sex and having them in your home, making that very clear |
| 1:49.9 | what does that dating relationship look like if they're in that? |
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