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YOUR MONEY | 3 things you need to discuss when your older children return to live with you

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Adult children are increasingly moving back to their parents’ homes after starting out in the working world.

They are known as the Boomerang Generation and are usually between 18 and 34 years old. It’s a way of cutting costs until they manage to get on their own feet, but in practice it doesn’t always work that well.

Sometimes parents are too lenient with their kids and keep paying for their expenses instead of taking care of their own savings. The kids, on the other hand, feel they get treated like teenagers rather than adults.

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