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Young adults must learn to fend for themselves away from parents' nests

One of the things most parents do not like to confess publicly is that they live for the day their children will become adults and leave their homes. The reason parents invest so heavily in their children as they take sacco loans to pay fees, buy all manner of textbooks and pay for all kinds of educational gadgets is so that some day these children will become adults. Ideally, parents want to raise children who become adults who can stand on their own feet and live independently – not sponging off their parents.

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