Children should be encouraged to confide in their parents, to tell us their secrets, to turn to us for help, in complete confidentiality.

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Mr. Cuccinelli said he believed the ruling also applied to the provision that allows children to stay on their parents' insurance policy until they turn 26 years old, which went into effect this year.

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He asks the younger generation to turn their back on the responsibility to pay into the social security system, as their parents did before them, so that an even earlier generation can look forward to some financial security in their sunset years.

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They applaud when the government forces insurance companies to keep them on their parents health plans until they turn 27, but complain that they have no job and have to live at home.

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Adult children, in turn, aren't eager to ask their parents about money for fear of coming across as greedy.

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The financial burden alone would probably cause many new parents to toss and turn even if their newborns slept through the night.

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Rather than going back to their parents, a large number of them turn to asceticism.

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They suggested that learning such skills could break the cycle of how parents and their children react to stressful situations, which in turn they said would reduce their risk of heart disease later in life.

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Government can't force parents to turn off the TV set and tell your kid to sit down and do their homework.

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The survey results revealed parents need of basic needs, educational resources and skills to help themselves to in turn help their children academically succeed.

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They know that parents have to parent, that children can't achieve unless we raise their expectations and turn off the television sets and eradicate the slander that says a black youth with a book is acting white.

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