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Unable to treat her parents as often as she would like, a reader is unsure how to encourage them to take a big step toward financial self-reliance. Growing up, my [...]

Byline: DIANNE MALEY FINANCIAL FACELIFT Jordan and Joy have raised two children, paid off the family home and cottage, and amassed substantial savings and investments. Jordan, who is 58, runs [...]

The offspring of many East Asian immigrants are raised to support their elders in their later years. That gives a segment of Americans challenges others don't face. A few months [...]

Byline: Pamela Knudson Jul. 23MANVEL, N.D. Alexandra Lunseth was 'very, very young' when she first became interested in cooking and baking. 'Even though I had dolls and other things to [...]

Byline: BRIDGET CASEY MBA (Finance) and founder of Money After Graduation, a financial e-learning company Most parents are desperate to give their kids a financial advantage. They're searching for a [...]

Byline: CAROLYN IRELAND; Staff TORONTO -- Economist Benjamin Tal is forecasting a strong spring market in Canadian real estate and, with it, an even larger presence for the 'bank of [...]

Byline: ROB CARRICK, Staff Lead The Canadian housing market's secret sauce is parents helping first-time buyers with down payments. According to a report due to be issued Monday by CIBC [...]

Byline: STACY LEE KONG, Special to The Globe and Mail Lead Every month, 26-year-old Parween Mander makes sure she sets aside some money in case her parents need help with [...]

Byline: RACHELLE YOUNGLAI, Staff Lead Brian Cosburn knew that his daughter and her husband would not be able to afford to buy a house in Mississauga, close to where his [...]

IF there is a boogeyman when it comes to family conversations about inheritance, it is not death. That happens whether people talk about financial plans or not. It's the $40 [...]

Byline: Steven Petrow Dear Civilities: My parents recently loaned my [same-sex] wife and me $8,000 to do some home repairs. It was incredibly kind of them, and they are even [...]

Byline: Brigid Schulte For 50 years, the government has fought the War on Poverty with programs typically focused on either helping children get off to a good start, or helping [...]

Byline: Chico Harlan SEOUL - There's a dark side to South Korea's 50-year rise to riches: The graying generation that is most responsible for that ascent is living in relative [...]

MAYBE it's because so many people find the subject boring. Maybe it's because the language is so weird, saying ''basis point'' when you mean one-hundredth of 1 percent and ''beta'' [...]

Gus Wenner runs Rollingstone.com; his father gave him the job. But Jann Wenner, the magazine's co-founder and publisher, was quick to assure critics of the appointment process that his son [...]

For all of the conversation this week about Mitt Romney's views on federal income taxes and personal responsibility, his insistence that ''I have inherited nothing'' may be the most thought-provoking. [...]

LAST spring, Jamie McGurk, an independent producer in Los Angeles, knew that the rough economic climate would make it difficult for her 22-year-old daughter Stephanie to get a job. So [...]

Byline: Joseph H. Cooper I know a father who wants to come up with some kind of Valentine gift for his two children - a daughter and a son. Not [...]

Byline: DIANE J. STRICKLAND Facts & Arguments /THE ESSAY Not much went the way we hoped this summer. The recession meant our youngest son returned from his first year of [...]

Byline: C.L. Votaw I sat in a Vietnamese diner in Seattle and ate supper. A 10-year-old boy came up to clear away my plate, while his older sister sat in [...]

Paris -- A French teenager who had a hit record at the age of 4 with It's So Tough to Be a Baby alleges that he was robbed by his [...]