how much power do parents really have?

Ephesians also says "do not be irritating your children." and in the setting up the marriage it tells us that the woman would "leave her father and mother and stick to her husband and they would become one flesh" which indicates that the male of the that situation would have already detached himself from his parents to where he was living his one life regardless of the fact that he was living with his parents.. but what your suggesting is that when a child continues to live with their parents they still have the same control over them as they did when they were 5 years old. shame on you for misapplying the scripture. ive studied the bible for the better part of 20 years. i was raised in a Christian household. no where in the bible does it support the idea that as long as you live with your parents they have absolute control over your every action. that would be unreasonable and does not fit the personality of the god of the bible. he created us to have free will. even he wont take that away from us...why would he make it so that parents can under certain circumstances? so this "power" that god gave parents has a cut off point to where "you will listen to me" becomes "this is only a suggestion but in the end its your decision to make and we have to respect it as you are an adult" so if i find i ever have to move back in with my parents i will not obey them if what they are commanding me is unreasonable. that would be surrendering my free will to some one i no longer have to, and god doesn't even ask us to do that.

oh yeah...and i was also paying for my room 300 a month, for my own phone food and clothing. so i was in a rental situation with them.

I have to agree with palmer. after a certain age we as ADULTS have to be able to make our own choices. We cant be controlled for the rest of our lives by our parents otherwise our civilization would probably have ended years and years ago. There is a point were parents have to respect their children and let them do as they wish they cant control every move we do. While yes i do agree we have to bee respectful of our parents and what not, but they also need to be respectful of their children as well.

i agree. but the 27 year old in question was making his way in the field and had to fall back and reestablish him self. that was the only reason that he moved in with his parents in the first place. otherwise once he had originally moved out he would have been on his own permanently.

guess what...im that 27 year old (28 now). and i don't live there anymore but thats the type of thing i had to go through.

thank you...and my parents made every effort to do that and we're successfully. and i was doing well. but yet they still continued to try to make my decisions for me.

I know how that goes Palmer my bro...my mother still tries to make decisions for me as well..it gets annoying at times but I get around it and ignore her at times...