{"id":109651,"date":"2025-08-31T11:34:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T11:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/109651\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T11:34:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T11:34:10","slug":"failure-to-launch-how-to-help-adult-kids-to-become-financially-independent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/109651\/","title":{"rendered":"Failure to launch? How to help adult kids to become financially independent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Expert takes on the pros and cons of asking children who might be saving for a mortgage to pay rent\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Irish people are living in their childhood home until they\u2019re 28, on average, compared to an EU average of 26. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/e773c23f-bd9b-4e45-ba21-dba3770a993d.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Irish people are living in their childhood home until they\u2019re 28, on average, compared to an EU average of 26. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Once upon a time in rural Ireland, young people didn\u2019t exactly fly the nest \u2013 they were pushed out at 17 or 18 to go to the big city for college or enter the workforce. Hatchlings didn\u2019t darken the door again until it was time to drop off a month\u2019s worth of laundry, raid their parents\u2019 fridge, or beg for beer money.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">But the housing emergency called a halt to that traditional milestone. Bedsits \u2013 that bleak but affordable escape valve for young adults craving independence \u2013 were banned and even a room in a modest Dublin house-share can now cost \u20ac1,000 a month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Expert takes on the pros and cons of asking children who might be saving for a mortgage to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[45,49,48,133,57272,131,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-109651","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-finance","12":"tag-gabrielle-monaghan","13":"tag-personal-finance","14":"tag-personalfinance"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}