Colleen27
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While this may seem very bad, there is really nothing wrong with it. The same exact scenario happened to my friend K. Now, her parents had discussed with her for years what would happen as her sibling all received similar treatment, but to others it may have looked bad. At the age of 18, K was out of her home and sent to college. She was given a bank account with enough money to get her through 4 years of college if she budgetted well. She was told there was only that bank account and she could not move home again. The sibling closest in age to her was 12 years older and she was the youngest of 4.
That isn't what I think of when I hear a teen/young adult has been kicked out - she still had her parents' financial support, just not their residence, and I could see doing something like that for a child who seemed to be having a hard time moving into adulthood.
When I think of "kicked out", I think of more of a sink or swim situation where the kid is on their own, not where the parents are still paying the bills even though the child no longer lives under their roof. Several of my friends who were kicked out couldn't even apply for financial aid for college, because their parents wouldn't fill out the required FAFSA information. They were really on their own - no support whatsoever from their parents at all.