Word: carlini
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Just how long should adult children live with their parents before moving on? Lucille Carlini of Brooklyn returned home with her two daughters after a divorce. That was almost twelve years ago. She is now 37 and her daughters 18 and 16. They still live with Carlini's mother Edie, who has welcomed having three generations in the same house. Still, most psychologists feel lengthy homecomings are a mistake. Offspring, struggling to establish separate identities, can wind up with "a sense of inadequacy, defeat and failure," says Kristine Kratz, a counselor with the Personal Development Institute in Los Angeles...