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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 633541" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>Newsflash!</p><p></p><p>Most adult children get jobs or go to college or work full time. Our parents probably threw us out, just like we finally do, if an able body child refused to work, pay her own expenses or grow up. I wouldn't give her a dime either. Most adult kids will tell you they smoke pot, but not the other drugs they take. She is likely taking more than pot. You heard it here first and I am usually told I was right.And if she is taking drugs, even pot, I hope she doesn't have three serious accidents like my daughter did. I never encourage using adult children to drive. It's dangerous to them and to others. Good on your husband for showing some gumption and not coddling her, by the way! I agree with him. She is high when she drives...how high, we don't know.</p><p></p><p>The way you can be there for her is to emotionally support her if she is kind to you. It is NOT about money. If that's what she wants, I would tell her no. Some adult kids are in the service at her age. It isn't considered childhood any longer. And some adults are fifty and still act like spoiled brats and have lived off of others all their lives. I believe the earlier you lay the law, the better it is in the long term, at least for us and we matter too. We matter as much as they do.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 633541, member: 1550"] Newsflash! Most adult children get jobs or go to college or work full time. Our parents probably threw us out, just like we finally do, if an able body child refused to work, pay her own expenses or grow up. I wouldn't give her a dime either. Most adult kids will tell you they smoke pot, but not the other drugs they take. She is likely taking more than pot. You heard it here first and I am usually told I was right.And if she is taking drugs, even pot, I hope she doesn't have three serious accidents like my daughter did. I never encourage using adult children to drive. It's dangerous to them and to others. Good on your husband for showing some gumption and not coddling her, by the way! I agree with him. She is high when she drives...how high, we don't know. The way you can be there for her is to emotionally support her if she is kind to you. It is NOT about money. If that's what she wants, I would tell her no. Some adult kids are in the service at her age. It isn't considered childhood any longer. And some adults are fifty and still act like spoiled brats and have lived off of others all their lives. I believe the earlier you lay the law, the better it is in the long term, at least for us and we matter too. We matter as much as they do. [/QUOTE]
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