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Why don’t we have a word that means “adult children”?

Will Ferrell and John C Reilly in Step Brothers. — Adult kids will be kids ... Will Ferrell and John C Reilly in Step Brothers. Photograph: c.Columbia/Everett/Rex

Why don’t we have a word to denote that we have “adult children”? Calling our twenty-something offspring “our children” sounds odd. Can anyone think of a suitable term for them?

Susan Taylor, Birmingham

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