The report said 59 per cent of retirees report helping their non-student adult children with both day-to-day expenses and big-ticket items like home purchases.

The report said 59 per cent of retirees report helping their non-student adult children with both day-to-day expenses and big-ticket items like home purchases.

  • AnotherDirtyAnglo@lemmy.ca
    35·
    6 months ago

    Heh. After Dad died, my Mom shacked up with a guy we met while Dad was in the hospital. He went to the same high school as me, the same year I did. He’s lazy, broke, bipolar and unmedicated by choice - and a rabid far-right conspiracy theorist… So technically, she’s supporting an adult child.

    I’m doing just fine, thanks. :D

    • njm1314@lemmy.world
      142·
      6 months ago

      I cannot fathom why you wouldn’t consider that support. It is by definition. I think the problem is you consider support a negative for some reason. You’re supposed to support your family there’s nothing wrong with it.

  • Reddfugee42@lemmy.world
    101·
    6 months ago

    And they are minimally obligated to do so considering they’ve hoarded such a gigantic portion of the economy

  • Papamousse@beehaw.org
    4·
    6 months ago

    It is funny because in something like 30 years, it will be children that will provide financially to their 80-90yo parents

    • pipsqueak1984@lemmy.ca
      3·
      6 months ago

      My wife and I are providing for my MIL (aka she is living with us and not working) and she has barely cracked 60.

      She does provide some childcare for us, but man is she lazy as shit while doing so… Just throws on TV and screws around on her phone. Somehow my wife can’t even work full time despite the fact that her mother is home almost all the time, that’s how bad it is.