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Originally Posted by JimOfferman  I do agree with that in theory, but I just would not be able to put that in practice when it would concern my child.
Guess I'm a softy too  |
And that is a big reason why we all love you so much
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I know it's hard when it's your child. It's a little easier for me to take this stance because I have relatives in their 40s and 50s still living off of their elderly parents. I think it's wrong and it ends up lowering the quality of the parents lives while their kids stay addicted to drugs and sporadically working.
However, in some cultures the extended family lives together throughout their lives and that seems to work well. In those instances though the cultural tradition also seems to enforce that each family member contributes to the whole.
Again, I would really want to help, but I would try to do it in a way that minimized the possibility of my help enabling destructive behaviour.