Question: what job requires all the resources you can possibly muster, and yet ultimately requires you to render yourself entirely redundant?
The answer, of course, is parenting. It's endlessly demanding; it takes up energy you didn't even realise you possessed; it will give you a level of job satisfaction you're unlikely to experience in anything else you do in your life. But, at the end of the day, the entire point of it is to ensure that you're dispensable in your child's life.
Which is why the plight of the Italian couple who have resorted to legal action in a bid to get their 41-year-old son out of their home is both tragic and an indictment of a society that has got its wires twisted over what parents should, and shouldn't, do for their offspring as they get older.
When did you leave home? How long will you let YOUR kids live with you? Does there come a time when even the most reluctant chick should be pushed out of the nest? Have your say in today's Daily Dilemma discussion...
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