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Originally Posted by kenny911
I don't think the main thing should be throwing someone out of the house. In America, there is this weird thing when someone is 18, we tend to want to throw him out in the "real world". I never understood that when other countries/cultures stress a tight knit family and the child lives at home until they get married. Financially, you are hurting your child when you throw them out. Do you want your kid to save his money and move on or barely get by and have some landlord take his money? Maybe thats why we as a nation are in financial ruin.
The most important thing is to get that kid into college and find out what makes him tick. Don't we want the best for our children? The best wouldn't be throwing him into some apartment and forcing them to work at Walmart. The best would be to send him to school and let him live on campus somewhere. How are his friends? What do they do? Maybe they are a negative influence.
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x2...well said and so true