{"id":85600,"date":"2026-02-26T10:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T10:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=85600"},"modified":"2026-02-26T10:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T10:32:09","slug":"boomers-like-me-are-funding-our-adult-childrens-lives-its-cost-us-our-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/02\/26\/boomers-like-me-are-funding-our-adult-childrens-lives-its-cost-us-our-dreams\/","title":{"rendered":"Boomers like me are funding our adult children\u2019s lives \u2013 it\u2019s cost us our dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1WWX6a.img?w=534&amp;h=801&amp;m=6&amp;x=588&amp;y=575&amp;s=103&amp;d=103\" alt=\"'Retirement is no longer simply about managing one\u2019s own needs,' says Dr Denise Taylor (Photo: Ilona Gierach)\" width=\"450\" height=\"675\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Recently, over coffee, a friend in her late sixties admitted something she hadn\u2019t even told her husband. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/familyhealth\/boomers-like-me-are-funding-our-adult-children-s-lives-it-s-cost-us-our-dreams\/ar-AA1WWPWr?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=69a00819814b4c51a974dbe6931a158b&amp;ei=235\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Recently, over coffee, a friend in her late sixties admitted something she hadn\u2019t even told her husband. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63958,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85600","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cost-of-living-crisis"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Mum-and-Dad-bank.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85601,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85600\/revisions\/85601"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}