Parents fail to launch adult kids out of the house

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ne of my favorite movies is "Failure to Launch." Not because it's great cinema; I just like the premise.

It's about a 35-year-old, played by Matthew McConaughey, who lives at home and has no intentions of leaving. So his parents hire a woman who specializes in getting grown men to leave the nest. There's much more to the story, of course, but the takeaway message for me is that parents need to help their adult children launch into adulthood. Unfortunately, there are many parents who fail at this task.

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Joshua Partlow 04 Sep, 2011


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