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Yahoo
08-07-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Parents shell out $5,000 a month and delay retirement to support 27-year-old daughter living at home
While some parents are enjoying their lives as empty nesters, others are taking financial care of their adult children. One California-based mother, 66, who chose to remain anonymous, recently spoke to CNBC about how much she and her husband pay to financially support their 27-year-old daughter. The mother told the publication her daughter moved back into their home in early 2024. Since then, she and her husband have been paying an extra $5,000 per month, including $1,500 on food, $700 on transportation, $400 on her pet cat, plus other miscellaneous expenses. With the extra money being allocated to their daughter's expenses, the mother said she and her husband would no longer be going on vacation this year, and her spouse is considering delaying his retirement. 'We were not planning on this kind of expenditure at this point of our lives,' she said. 'The reason we do it is because we don't want to see her on the street.' The father explained to CNBC that his decision not to retire relies on his employer-sponsored health insurance, which currently runs him and his wife $600 for their daughter. 'At this point, I was hoping to do a lot more travelling … we've really put that on the back burner,' the mother said. 'I thought my husband and I would have the house to ourselves with the dogs, and we wouldn't be worried sick about her all the time.' These parents aren't alone, as a survey published in May by financial services provider Thrivent discovered that almost 40% of parents in the U.S. claim that supporting their adult children has impacted their savings goals. Some, like the California parents, have turned to Kim Muench, a parenting coach who specializes in young adults. She told CNBC how clients who are financially affected by their children living at home are coping. 'Parents sometimes hesitate to get help for themselves and invest in their health … because they're already spending more than they would like to support their adult or emerging adult children,' Muench said. When the arrangement becomes prolonged, she said parents end up becoming worried that they will be providing for their child for the rest of their lives. According to Muench, the best method for trying to get around the problem is for parents to continue having conversations with their children and to set financial boundaries. 'It takes consistent conversations, because it's probably not going to happen in the first conversation,' she said. 'And it takes an emotional maturity level on both the parents and the emerging adult side to figure out how they can work together.'
CTV News
03-07-2025
- Entertainment
- CTV News
Northern author talks about her 3rd novel
Northern Ontario Watch Northern Ontario author Susan Allen talks with Tony Ryma about her new novel 'Loon Country.' A book about a couple who are empty nesters who plan a camping trip in the wild to fulfill a dream.
CTV News
26-06-2025
- Entertainment
- CTV News
A glimpse of Marge Simpson's death in a flash-forward episode still sending shockwaves through the fandom
Marge feels an overwhelming dread of the empty nest in the "A Mid-Childhood Night's Dream" episode of "The Simpsons." (FOX via CNN Newsource) If you aren't yet caught up with the latest episodes of The Simpsons, be warned: there are spoilers ahead. It's been more than a month since the death of a beloved cartoon character was foretold by the series. But fans still say they're in shock that Marge Simpson, the beloved, blue-haired matriarch, will die before her husband. The episode begins by showing that Lisa and Bart Simpson (voiced by Yeardley Smith and Nancy Cartwright) have drifted apart. In the season finale episode titled 'Estranger Things,' the oldest children of Homer and Marge (Dan Castellaneta and Julie Kavner) suggests the siblings no longer spend time together at this point in the future.' This sets in motion the events that lead to the revelation in a flash-forward sequence that Marge eventually dies before Homer. Few details are revealed about what happened, or when the show might catch up to this point. The episode reveals a future in which a now-adult Lisa is the commissioner of the WNBA. Bart, however, remains in Springfield and a widowed Homer lives in a retirement lookahead shows the late Marge spending time with Beatles musician Ringo Starr (who is still alive in real life) in heaven. 'I'm just so glad we're allowed to marry different people in heaven,' Marge says as the episode ends. Even if this reveal is accurate to the show's eventual storyline and not a dream sequence or alternate future, there is nothing to suggest that Marge won't be featured in the next season. Still, the death was emotional for fans whose mourning has continued a month after the episode aired. 'OMG THEY KILLED MARGE it's a sad day for us Simpsons lovers,' one person posted on social media. This is not the first death in the show since it first aired in 1989, but it is the first time the showrunners have shown the death of one of the main family members. The Simpsons have killed off many characters through the years, including Frank Grimes, Maude Flanders, Edna Krabappel and Larry Dalrymple ( has kept a track of them all). But you can breathe easy: Marge is not going anywhere just yet. It was announced in April that the show has been renewed for four more seasons. Kavner will likely return, since Marge's death happens later in the show's timeline. Matt Groening, the creator of the series, told Variety that The Simpsons fandom is 'as intense as ever,' despite being the longest-running animation series in North America. The death of the Marge character represents a break from how things played out in the Groening family. Matt Groening named Homer and Marge for his parents, and his mother outlived his father.
CTV News
26-06-2025
- Entertainment
- CTV News
Marge Simpson isn't dead yet, so everyone can calm down
Marge feels an overwhelming dread of the empty nest in the "A Mid-Childhood Night's Dream" episode of "The Simpsons." (FOX via CNN Newsource) There was a death of a beloved character on the Season 36 finale of 'The Simpsons' last month that people are still grieving. But in the colorfully animated world of Springfield, it's probably safe to save our tears for now. In an episode titled 'Estranger Things,' the fate of matriarch Marge Simpson is foreshadowed. A flash-forward 35 years in the future shows a successful Lisa working as the commissioner of the NBA. Bart is running an unlicensed retirement home, where their father Homer lives, paid for by Lisa. The siblings have drifted apart after they stop watching 'The Itchy & Scratchy Show' together. A funeral scene reveals that Marge has passed away. The now-adult Simpson kids stand by her grave site with a tombstone that reads, 'Beloved wife, mother and pork-chop seasoner.' After Lisa finds a video from the past in which her mother advises her children to remain close to each other. Lisa and Bart reunite and their mother looks on from heaven. 'I'm so happy my kids are close again,' Marge says in her afterlife, where it is revealed that she has married her longtime crush, Beatle Ringo Starr. 'Love, we'll be late for the Heaven Buffett,' Starr tells her. 'There's a shrimp tower.' 'Okay, Ringo,' Marge tells him. 'I'm just so glad that we're allowed to marry different people in Heaven.' The internet was not happy. 'OMG THEY KILLED MARGE 😭 it's a sad day for us Simpsons lovers,' one person posted on X. The show - and Marge - aren't going anywhere anytime soon. 'The Simpsons,' the longest running animated series in television history, has been renewed for four more years. By Lisa Respers France.
Yahoo
22-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Johnny Depp Gets Candid About Raising Kids Lily-Rose and Jack: ‘I Loved Being Papa'
Johnny Depp is getting candid. The actor sat down with The Sunday Times for a wide-ranging interview in which he discussed raising his two kids, Lily-Rose and Jack, with ex Vanessa Paradis. After the reporter spotted a painting behind Depp, the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' star revealed it was a portrait of his daughter. 'I never finished it. She was ten then, and 25 now. Years get away from us, don't they?' the 62-year-old said before learning that the interviewer had two young children of his own. 'Oh, I envy you. I'm of the empty-nest syndrome,' Depp shared. The Academy Award nominee was then asked if he misses having his children around. 'Oh man, my kids growing up in the south of France in their youth? I was Papa. I cannot tell you how much I loved being Papa. Then, suddenly, Papa was out the window. I was Dad. But Papa was awesome and I'm getting old enough for Papa to possibly come back. Some motherf-----'s going to have to call me Papa!'
