Reddit Thread Asks at What Age Should Adult Kids Stop Being Required To Check in With Their Parents?

Reddit Thread Asks at What Age Should Adult Kids Stop Being Required To Check in With Their Parents?

In an AITA thread, a Reddit user asked just that. “I moved out of my parents’ house at 18 years old to attend a college that is 200 miles (roughly a four-hour drive) away from them,” the now-21 year old explains. “My parents' only request was a ‘good morning’ and a ‘good night’ to our family group chat.”

Terms of Estrangement; Parents and their Adult Kids.

The last few weeks have brought the news that three of the kids born or adopted by Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have filed petitions to drop Pitt from their names. In recent years I have spoken with former clients who report varying degrees of estrangement from their now adult kids. This is both a serious and saddening trend.Parents who participate in lengthy disputes over custody often don’t see that children tend to blame them for disrupting t…