Foster kids cut loose far earlier than our own

Foster kids cut loose far earlier than our own

With so many adult children well into their 20s, even their 30s, still dependent on mom and dad, they’ve been dubbed the “boomerang generation.” They’re back home. Some never left.

A Harris Poll, commissioned last year by the National Endowment for Financial Education and Forbes Magazine, found 59 percent of American parents still pony up for adult children up to 39 years old. The survey excluded children still in school or the percentage would have been higher still.