Tag: adulthood

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons licence

by
Amy Yau, Cardiff University
Sofia Christidi, University of South Wales

Picture this: a man in his forties unpacks his holiday suitcase, only to find an entire rack of lamb and a giant cheese pie carefully tucked in by his mother.

For many adult children, like the participants in our study, the experience of receiving well-meaning but unsolicited parental care is both endearing and exasperating. And it symbolises a deeper tension in modern family dynamics.