Some say today’s young adults lack independence, but is a lasting reliance on parents really that bad?

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Mum and daughter talking on the phone

Children in nursery singing nursery rhymes

Newborn baby wrapped in a wool blanket wearing a woolen hat

Parent high fiving child

Burger King sign

Mother talking to teenage daughter about sex

Teenage girl holding her phone

Little boy eating from a box of peanuts

Schoolchildren

Siblings stood by a wall for their back to school photo

Child going to school

Oasis reunion

Mother hurrying her children out of the door

Millennial parent

Children sat at their desks with hands raised