Should you give money to your adult child?

Freeloading kids, or the mother from hell?

The column we’re discussing is Slate’s Pay Dirt, Jan 08, 2025, titled “I Finally Asked My Son Why He Keeps Me Away From His Family. I’m Shocked That the Answer Involves My Wealth.”

It’s a point of pride for all advice columnists that they never respond to letters from people who invent problems so as to trick them. So in the early days of AdviceObsessed …