Exclusive | Helicopter parents spending thousands for ‘Rent-A-Moms’ to cook, clean for helpless adult kids

Exclusive | Helicopter parents spending thousands for ‘Rent-A-Moms’ to cook, clean for helpless adult kids

Chicken soup? Check. Birthday balloons? Delivered. Laundry? Don’t even think about it. In Alabama, Carrie Eckhardt spends hours lovingly simmering chicken soup for a college student with the sniffles, taking occasional breaks to wash and fold laundry. In St. Louis, Mindy Horwitz is on balloon-and-birthday-card duty, making a dorm-room delivery for a student whose big … Read more