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Article: Full House: When Kids Move Back Home; Parents Struggle With Adult Children's Return
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- The Washington Post
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- November 16, 2004
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When Linda Perlman Gordon's daughter, Emily, moved back into their
Chevy Chase home for more than a year after college, it wasn't an
embarrassment or a defeat or a sign of too-taut apron strings. It was
"fiscally responsible, as opposed to just bankrolling her," says
Gordon, a clinical social worker.
Emily, who eventually went on to medical school and is now a 31-
year-old doctor in San Francisco, was going through a new stage of
life that Gordon calls "adultescence" -- the seemingly endless
stretch of time between prom night and confident adult self-
sufficiency (some of us, to be sure, never get there). Gordon coined
the term with Susan Morris Shaffer, an expert on gender-related
issues ...