Why I Don’t Want To Raise Independent Children

Keep your friends close and your family closer

indi.ca
7 min readMay 6, 2021

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Why is it a ‘failure to launch’ if your children live at home? I look at my children and think about this. I don’t want them to go anywhere, and I’d like to remain close as adults. The western parenting goal is for your children to leave, but why would you want this? Don’t you like them?

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Indrajit Samarajiva is a writer from Sri Lanka. Follow me at www.indi.ca, or just email me at indi@indi.ca.