Society & Culture

Adult children dependent on Aged parents

Society & Culture

Posted by: TimberAngel

13th Sep 2012 03:24pm

How many of you still mooch off your parents who are retired/about to retire? I don't but I sure know someone who does, so does anyone else think that's wrong or right that a 37 yr old mooches of his parents, when hes married and is a doctor? More details as I see responses. Thanks


Comments 5

Jude
  • 6th Oct 2012 07:43am

There comes a time when parents are entitled to relax without worries. Once an adult you should become independent and not mooch off your parents so they can enjoy their lives.


Chicken
  • 7th Oct 2012 07:53pm
There comes a time when parents are entitled to relax without worries. Once an adult you should become independent and not mooch off your parents so they can enjoy their lives.


I can not believe it, someone who is supposed to be as responsible and ethical as a doctor should carry that over into their private lives. At the same time though, I must comment that everyone is at fault here not just him, and maybe he has been given full licence to stay. 'You are welcome to live with us as long as you want honey' etc, and I know of cases where this has happened and the person wants to move on but has been discouraged. If that is scenario here then the parents are as much, if not more to blame than him. And what of his wife, does she go along with the idea? It must be putting a real strain on their marriage living with in-laws.

shoregurl
  • 5th Oct 2012 08:41pm

My sister in my Adopted family still mooches off her parents. She rents her own place has four kids and still sponges off her parents for everything. She has a live in boyfriend and they both work. Her parents are on a pension and her father works part time

Miss Prim
  • 5th Oct 2012 08:08pm

Of course it is wrong to mooch off your parents when you can support yourself. Sounds like one spoilt person and it is unfair that a doctor of all people is taking advantage of his parents. Does not say much for his ethics and I hope he wakes up and gets his own place. Glad he is not my doctor.

teisha
  • 4th Oct 2012 01:26pm

If this person was not working or married then i would understand however he is neither of those. I wonder how a marriage works when one partner still lives at home with their parents. Being on a doctors wage he should be capable of supporting himself and his family in his own home instead of "mooching" off his parents. I say time to move out!

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