Acknowledgments
Preface

1. Boom or Bust
2. Contemporary Grown Children
3. Hanging Onto the Family Home
4. Parents Raising Children ... Again?
5. Redefining the Family
6. Communication
7. Choosing Not to Nest
8. The American Family: History Repeating Itself?

Bibliography
Index

The Nesting Syndrome: Grown Children Living At Home
(Fairview Press, 1997)

Parents across the nation are experiencing a social phenomenon. It is nothing new, but it has been growing since the late 1980s. What is this social circumstance: grown children who either delay their departures from home or return home to live, once or often. Author Valerie Wiener calls these adult children who live in the family home nesters. She pursues many of the challenges involved in these multi-generational households, including one echoed often by the adult nesters: "You promised us the good life, and now we cannot afford to pay for it!"

Another social explosion involves parents who are catering to, and even raising, their own children's children.

The author also addresses positive sides to the nesting experience. These include benefits to the grown children and to their parents. Wiener addresses this widespread phenomenon with timely information and helpful advice. This book features comments from parents and their nesting children, as well as those from children and adults who have chosen NOT to create a nesting environment.

The Nesting Syndrome: Grown Children Living at Home has earned writing awards from both the International Association of Business Communicators and the Nevada Press Women.