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Dear Abby column on parental financial help and boundaries
A reader in Ohio asks how to tell her daughter Martha that supporting her and her baby is unsustainable. Abby advises setting clear limits, reducing gifts, and deadlines, noting the daughter’s debt and low income, while preparing for anger and possible blackmail over the grandchild. The second letter asks how to respond when friends demand loan of tractors and trailers. Abby reframes the problem to the wife, suggesting she handle refusals with her husband and direct borrowing requests to the wife.
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