In other cases, parents are 'dangling the carrot' of inheritance to maintain control over the lives of their adult children and grandchildren (stock image posed by models)] 'But then she offered to pay for the kids' schooling, something we never could have afforded without her, and ever since then I feel tied to her in a weird, kind of grotesque way.'.
Garrett says he encounters a lot of Millennial and Gen X adult children whose expectations of a large inheritance play a major role in their financial planning, and who, in some cases, try to use their relationship with their parents as a bargaining chip.
In some situations, experts say, adult children are choosing to maintain relationships with abusive or difficult parents they would otherwise be estranged from purely because they need the inheritance.
In other cases, parents are 'dangling the carrot' of inheritance to maintain control over the lives of their adult children and grandchildren (stock image posed by models).
In some situations, adult children are choosing to maintain relationships with abusive or difficult parents they would otherwise be estranged from because they need the inheritance.
