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I could be wrong on this, but I think if a son or daughter is under 26 and a full time student living with the parents, they can still qualify under the parents' health care plan. Could something like that play a factor on the surveys? When they say "children", it is used as a generic term for your kids (regardless of their age). I will still be my parents child when I turn 50.
Under Obamacare that is correct.They get free contraceptives too.
It use to be "children under the age of 18" wonder if the future will say 30? Government wants to see private insurance to go down and have Obamacare take over.
My question is are we to treat these 18-26 year old people as children? I guess they probably feel like children when they have no job and can't move away from their parents' home. It's getting crazy.
The last surveys I have taken have asked me if I have any CHILDREN living at home under age 26. Are we now to consider people under 26 still kids?
Uh, seriously? I hadn't noticed but thanks for mentioning that.
I think it's symptomatic of the changes in your life-style and standard of living that are forthcoming over the next decade or two.
If you get a chance, go back and read what the Futurists were predicting in 1999.
One of the interesting predictions is mass emigration from America. It would seem that either the current generation born of late, from about 2001 onward, will have no choice but to leave the US to find work or to have any semblance of the current life-style.
I have in several posts jokingly referred to them as "Generation Diaspora."
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A parent will be obligated to carry insurance and pay child support for their child to the age of 26... SORRY NO LINKS,,, But I see the womans concern, bunch of horse azz responses
A person is legally an adult at age 18, these surveyors shouldn't be thinking that people aged 18-26 are children when they're not.
child
[chahyld] Show IPA
–noun, plural chil·dren.
1.
a person between birth and full growth; a boy or girl: books for children.
2. a son or daughter: All my children are married.
3.
a baby or infant.
I don't know where they would go, no economy is good now in any country. It's probably going to be multiple families living together to make ends meet. My mother and father had to live with my mother's parents in the depression. My father's job was digging post holes for 50 cents a hole. That was hard times. Plus no health insurance at all for anybody.
The last surveys I have taken have asked me if I have any CHILDREN living at home under age 26. Are we now to consider people under 26 still kids? If so should we push back the voting age, driving age, drinking age?
Maybe it takes longer for teens to become adults now. Maybe we need to start treating them that way, still children.
What would you prefer they call people that were born of the person responding to the survey? Would offspring make you feel better? Talk about getting into semantics.
I don't care if they call them children but maybe those people still living at home would not like to be thought of as children.
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