Is It Time to Have a Money Talk, Child to Parent?

The federal bailouts of the last few months raise a variety of thorny questions, including who benefits at whose expense. But the question that hits home the hardest is the one that isn’t getting enough discussion around kitchen tables:

Will we have to bail out our own family members?
It’s started coming up in asides I hear from middle-aged friends who are concerned about their parents ending up in the poorhouse. full story:

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