[Ciexyz]

I didn't see any mention of these young boarders paying rent. When I got a full time job after college, my parents discussed with me the necessity of paying rent (in addition to the chores that I had been doing.) That seemed reasonable to me, and we had that arrangement till I found my own apartment a few years later.

[Ciexyz]

My cousin's husband walked out on her when their baby girl was a month old. She moved back in with her parents, was on welfare for awhile which paid for her two year degree at community college, after which she got a job. The grandparents raised the little girl, and my cousin and her daughter didn't move out to their own place until the child was a teenager and able to stay alone after school by herself.

[Cronos]

Well, that's what I mean, pay your way and what's the problem, a comfort for the parents and when THEY need extra cash, the kids SHOULD give it and the parents should expect it -- filial gratitude and all that.