@jadewarshaw: Parents y’all need to stop with this.  Hot Take: We as parents bring the children into the world and it is our responsibility to take care of the children, raise them up, prepare them to fly and then push them out  to take flight… letting  them fly on to continue the circle of life. We do all this WHILE simultaneously taking care of ourselves. Because we aren’t just parents we are adults and part of adulting is  handling your business.   Aside from any major life incident or medical crisis - and even so it is not the child’s responsibility to come back and take financial responsibility for the parents simply because that’s what the parent wants. Or because the parent decides they no longer want to do adulting activities.