Savings & Retirement

Parents Drain Retirement Funds to Support Adult Children

People with children 18 or older have sacrificed everything from paying down debt to saving for emergencies.

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Entering adulthood is hard. But parents say financially supporting grown children is harder.

Nearly 70% of parents with kids 18 or older say they’ve sacrificed their own finances to help them, according to a new Bankrate report.