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Old 09-17-2015, 02:43 PM
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Originally Posted by stevebotts View Post
I would love to know how many of us reading this post asked OUR aging parents for money.
I ended up gifting my parents money but many of today's young adults seem to have an unwarranted sense of entitlement that the world owes them a fine lifestyle even if they choose not to work for it. What truly disgusts me is that I see demands for money "or you won't see the grandchildren" or other threats from some of the adult children among several families I know well.

The well to do particularly face a conundrum; they are dam*ed if they do and dam*d if they don't.
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