they ll come and bring all the kids. we were always together, always a family. we went to all of their events. they were busy, always doing something. whether it was soccer or, you know, anything in the fine arts musically. reporter: you guys do almos sound like t leave it to beaver oh, yeah. reporter: but by 2012 those days were gone. frank and ashley were empty nesters. you were so close with your kids. was it hard as one by one they started leaving the nest and going off to college? sure. yeah, it was. i mean, i m proud of them but it was difficult. i mean, change is difficult. reporter: now nancy was often home alone.
a adding they are using me as a scapegoat. they are pointing their fingers at me but i m pointing my finger at them. detective brian simonson was hit in a february shootout with ransom. he calls it a prank gone wrong. brian and ainsley. brian: as parents know all too well because your children have moved out doesn t mean you are off the hook so to speak. ainsley: are you speaking from experience? brian: yes. ainsley: 40% of empty nesters are still financially supporting they re kids in some way. spending an averages of $254 a months on children who no longer live at their house. debt free degree and he joins us now. good morning. good morning, ainsley, brian. thanks for having me back on. ainsley: have you surprised by this 40% of parents? empty nest and still supporting their kids. i m not surprised by it. when you look back 1989, i think, the cost of colleges have gone up 8 times over
wages. young people are going to school thinking they are going to be making a lot of money and findings out they are not going to make at love money upfront. they are coming back home. one thing suggesting to my parents what my parents did. set boundaries. listen, you are going to get out of debt. get on a budget and you are going to be working. be out of the house within six months. my parents gave me six months and i was out within four but not shocked at all. brian: the colleges have went up and do what for your kids what your parents did for you. all of a sudden you realize the math doesn t work. as the age increases the tuition increase. you want your son or daughter to go to that great school i will give you a lone really so they can achieve their degree and won t deprive them nickly qualified for. i think their heart is in the right place. the top space for empty nesters 24% say cell phone. 19% say rent. then have you got groceries
washington s elite, in their queen anne and craftsman s homes and not the sort of story we re about to tell. ambitious men, dark plots and dames. i asked him. am i just the dumb blonde who missed it? or did everyone miss it? the one so many people missed, before that dreadful vent here in the wooded enclave. he thought that god was blessing hem and my mom. we thought we were walking on water. here they were, empty nesters, all alone in their house on the south hill, convinced that their successes, their six grown kids, their good life were products of an unflinching trust in god. you know, we finally got out of the desert. and he was going to get into the promised land. yes, the promised land. riches beyond imagining.
it s real. people with money go back into the cities, empty nesters do. he seems to be attacking the whole metropolitan notion of living together. i m serious. it s one of the reasons he won. there is an alienation in so many places that people have left. jobs have migrated to the cities. so you can understand why trump has appeal in places that are not urban, places that have seen the population move away, but i just think if you step back from it you mean the inner suburbs? and the industrial parts of the country in a lot of the states that he won. people were surprised that he won. but what s remarkable is just looking at a president who makes explicit that he doesn t think that he s president of the entire country. yeah. he is pitting people and regions and subgroups against one another all the time. but vividly. it s remarkable to hear him say that that congressman should fix baltimore, that they should worry about that. he s the president of the united states, but