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Originally Posted by fundmark19
I am not asian and my mom begs me to move home on a weekly basis. I say i'm getting sick she says move home to get better. Then I respond with "Mom I am 23 married and have my own house I am not moving home!" She then gets sad and a week later tells me to move home all over again.
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The opposite trend is adult children are becoming increasingly resentful of the oozing love their formerly formal and frosty parents shower their current pets with.
"Where the hell were these parents when we were kids?" is the lament.
Pets are like a do-over for parents. They've got a second chance to make right all their previous mistakes.
There was a great article on this about a year ago in the Globe & Mail or National Post and I've seen other references around . . . .
Pretty funny actually.
Here's something from David Foot, the great demographic mind . . .
http://www.footwork.com/globe5.asp
Cowperson