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Hly2004 Posted 20 years ago
Vocabulary

a word

If someone has grown up. and he still rely on his parents. That is, he can not economically stand on his own. Is there a noun word available to call him?
  

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None that jumps to mind. In Chinese culture, one's supposed to support one's parents financially when they get old. In American culture, kids move out early in life but they still get cash or expensive presents from their parents on their birthdays or during X'mas.

— Julielai

  • None that jumps to mind.
  • In Chinese culture, one's supposed to support one's parents financially when they get old.
  • In American culture, kids move out early in life but they still get cash or expensive presents from their parents on their birthdays or during X'mas.
  • There is an idiom: be tied to your mother's apron strings.
  • But that's not about financial dependence.
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None that jumps to mind. In Chinese culture, one's supposed to support one's parents financially when they get old. In American culture, kids move out early in life but they still get cash or expensive presents from their parents on their birthdays or during X'mas.

There is an idiom: be tied to your mother's apron strings. But that's not about financial dependence. Parasite? That's
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Thank you! Julielai, your signature is very good! Is that your ideal?
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I think it's rather appropriate for our Writing World forum (though in Chinese).
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freeloader
sponger
parasite/blood sucker/leech

But none is specific to being dependent on your parents after you've grown up.

Anyone else?
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Danyo has a lot of words about this matter. I'll add an only word based on our culture ;pious .It means filial piety.We are influenced from Chinese, from Confucius: The only one child is the boy, the eldest; Ten girls are nothing. There are some families with many generations. The mother is an angel. She takes care the first and the second generation..... If she can. She used to be in diet so s
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dhandachoru in Tamil. That means a person who sits and have his 3 course meals on his fathers costdoing nothing
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