Known as "full-time children", many young adults now contribute through cooking, cleaning and caregiving as rising living costs make independence harder to achieve.

AI is becoming more human-like, but experts say emotional boundaries still matter.

It always feels easier to talk about war when it is someone else’s child on the frontlines, but the moment a familiar name is mentioned, suddenly the conversation becomes a lot more personal.

In some cases, parents are no longer able to work due to ill health; in others, they have been retrenched, retired on modest pensions, or face a combination of setbacks.

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