We must love our adult children enough to let them go…

Look, guys. That's my sweetheart in there. I'm not leaving her. This is my home now. Your mother is my home. -Duke (to his…

— The Notebook

“ACOA (Adult Children of Alcoholics) Counseling can break the cycle in your family. Did you parent your parents? Chaos seem normal? Unhappiness is expected?…

— Spiritual Healing

As chairman of the housing committee, I had to help the council wrestle with the pressure on social housing from asylum seekers and other…

— Nick Boles

Nothing is more debilitating than to care about something you can't do anything about. And you can't do anything about your adult children. You…

— Esther Hicks

Allowing adult children who live at home who are in between jobs to stay on their parents' health care, I think that's a lot…

— Jack Kingston

I've always been quite mature because of the way my parents brought me up. They were very good at talking to me like a…

— Saoirse Ronan

This is the pain-pleasure of having newly adult children; they're innocent and ruthless in forgetting their sweet old dependence.

— Ian Mcewan

Raising children is a spur-of-the-moment, seat-of-the-pants sort of deal, as any parent knows, particularly after an adult child says that his most searing memory…

— Anna Quindlen

“The observer self, a part of who we really are, is that part of us that is watching both our false self and our…

— Charles L. Whitfield

“Cermak said, “Those therapists who work successfully with this population have learned to honor the client’s need to keep a lid on his or…

— Charles L. Whitfield

“Often when we speak of exercising 'tough love'...we think of it being tough on the adult child, when in reality it's tough on the…

— Bill Taylor

“Your child, too, will one day be an adult. For them to live life with the same degree of independence as neurotypical offspring might…

— Naoki Higashida

“If you live long enough & have changed enough diapers like I have raising 6 whole grown adult children one-at-a-time; you ought to be…

— Tracey Bond

What stalwart Republican would stop Trump from profiteering for his businesses from the White House the way he's gamed his companies and the tax…

— Joy Reid

Creative action plays with the unknown. But as the child fears the dark... the adult child will be fearful too, faced with the dark…

— Arthur J. Deikman