Maliyah, 16, said, "I believe I've never needed another parent figure in my life because Mom is more than enough for that." Rosie Colosi lives in New Jersey and is a reporter for TODAY Parents.

Languages: English. You can get in touch with Jack by emailing [email protected] A millennial mom has offered up a theory on why parents today are "exhausted" and it seems to be resonating ...

Knowing this, there are some specific things a truly loving mom will always do for her adult kids. For mothers, it can probably be bittersweet watching their adult children come into their own.

As Meghan wrote in a 2015 essay for Elle UK, “It was the late Seventies when my parents met, my dad was a lighting director for a soap opera and my mom was a temp at the studio. I like to think ...