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5. Parents’ relationship with their young adult children
Few parents report relying heavily on their young adult children for emotional support
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- 5. Parents’ relationship with their young adult children
- Most parents say they have an excellent or very good relationship with their young adult children
- Parents’ ratings of their relationship with their adult children vary by child’s level of financial independence
- Most parents say their young adult children truly know them as a person
- Few parents report relying heavily on their young adult children for emotional support
- Moms of daughters report the highest levels of emotional dependence
- Many parents say their adult children often come to them for career advice
- Parents whose youngest adult child is 18 to 24 give advice more often on a variety of topics
- About half of parents of young adults say they rarely or never went to their own parents for advice when they were young
- Very few parents say they often disagree with their adult children about major aspects of their lives
- About 3 in 10 parents say they text their young adult child daily
- Mothers are in touch with their young adult children more often than fathers are
- 1 in 4 parents say they track their young adult child’s location with GPS apps or software
- A third of fathers say they’re less involved in their young adult child’s life than they’d like to be