NOT ALL ADULT CHILDREN ARE BAD NEWS. I am 52 years old and I moved to The Villages to help my elderly parents. Three months after I got here, my father died suddenly so I thank God I was here to spend 3 months with him and also that I am here to help my mom. I work full-time and so does my 21 year old son who lives with me and is high functioning autistic. We own our home, live a few doors away from my widowed mom and abide by all the rules of The Villages. We take good care of our house, help my mom on a daily basis and are friendly with our neighbors who all are like 2nd family on our street. Not all adult children are bad news. There are many of us that have moved here because our parents decided to leave the family up north and come down here for retirement, not thinking about who will look after them when they get older and need help. My mom refuses to move north so we have no choice but to be here with her. A lot of us have dropped everything to move down here, start a new life, take a huge cut in salary to assist our parents. That's what family is all about, caring for another one, making sacrifices as they did that for me their whole lives. Of course you have the other bunch who moved down here to live off their parents because of their bad luck, poor decisions and they are the ones which need to reform them selves. Do not worry though, when the time comes that we are no longer looking after our mom, we will certainly be going back to where we came from, picking up where we left off. Like you, I am also disgusted with the crime we read about and all the wrong doings which seem to be caused by people in my age group or my son's age group. In our spare time, which we don't have much of, we are out and about exploring Florida, leaving the The Village activities and amenities for the 55+ to enjoy.
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