Endless Parenting: How Our Definition of Child-Rearing Is Changing

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🗓️ 13 August 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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More adults are now relying on their parents for financial support, career advice and emotional regulation well into their 30s — challenging the notion that a parent is only responsible for their child until age 18. One poll found that about 45% of adults under 30 are living with their parents — “the most common living arrangement for that age group for the first time since just after the Great Depression,” writes Atlantic staff writer Faith Hill. In the past this may have been considered a “failure to launch,” but as families reckon with changing economic realities and delayed maturity milestones, they report benefits from their increased closeness compared with prior generations.” Is your relationship with your adult child, or children, different from the one you had with your parents? Guests: Faith Hill, staff writer, The Atlantic - author of the article "The New Age of Endless Parenting" Kelly Nguyen, licensed psychotherapist, She has a private practice in San Francisco where she sees adult individuals and couples. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:11.6	Coming up on forum, parenting is lasting a lot longer these days than when a child turns 18. Pew surveys from last year find that a significant portion of adults are relying on their parents for financial support,
1:18.6	career or relationship advice well into their 30s, and that constant contact between parent and adult child is common.
1:25.6	If you think this is a bad thing, detrimental to developing independence or a so-called failure to launch,
1:31.3	the vast majority of both parents and adult kids surveyed said it's had a positive impact on their relationship and lives.
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