[manaboutown]

To me there are good reasons and bad reasons for adult children living with mom and/or dad. The following are representative and not all inclusive.

Good reasons: being a caregiver to a parent(s), parent(s) acting as caregiver(s) for a physically/mentally handicapped or challenged adult child, temporarily taking in a child needing some help recovering from a serious illness or injury and an adult child student preparing for a new career.

Bad reasons: taking in convicted and likely dangerous felons perhaps just out of prison or otherwise homeless, taking in substance abusing adult children and taking in potentially violent mentally ill adult children.

For all the bleeding hearts: How would you feel if your next-door or nearby neighbor had an adult child living there who was a physical threat to you and your spouse, whose adult child was running what amounted to a crack house or meth lab right in their parent's house? What if they were operating what amounted to a homeless shelter or halfway house right next door to you with litter, cigarette butts, loud music and young people coming and going all hours of the night, yelling, reving motorcycle engines, driving on your lawn, throwing their beer cans, empty bottles and used needles on your property? What if they were fencing stolen property out of their parent's garage?