Adult children living at home showing on Unassigned HT list
Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2017 7:14 pm
We have many households in our Stake where adult children are living with their parents. Along with the other siblings, they are listed with their father being head of household. While the family is assigned home teachers, the adult children are showing up on the Unassigned Home Teachers report. If you look at the individual, they are assigned home teachers though.
Is this a glitch, or the desired behavior?
We found that if you make the 19 year old the head of their own household, at the same address as their parent,s AND assign them the same home teachers as their parents, they no longer show up on the Unassigned report. This seems like a hack. Is the recommendation to make all young adults their own head of household? If that was the direction, why would it not automatically do that upon their birthday?
If we make them their own head of household, then we had lots of questions like: "If its a 19 year old female, then do we need to assign her home teachers from the High Priest quorum as she is a single sister, even though the Elder's Quorum is already assigned to home teach the family at that address?". And "By splitting them out into their own head of household, that increases the number of families the quorum has to assign, and thus increases the number of 'families' assigned to a companionship. While not really increasing the number of homes to visit, having 12+ families on a route has a negative psychological impact." And so on and so forth.
What counsel should I be providing the Clerks, EQ and HPG leaders?
Is this a glitch, or the desired behavior?
We found that if you make the 19 year old the head of their own household, at the same address as their parent,s AND assign them the same home teachers as their parents, they no longer show up on the Unassigned report. This seems like a hack. Is the recommendation to make all young adults their own head of household? If that was the direction, why would it not automatically do that upon their birthday?
If we make them their own head of household, then we had lots of questions like: "If its a 19 year old female, then do we need to assign her home teachers from the High Priest quorum as she is a single sister, even though the Elder's Quorum is already assigned to home teach the family at that address?". And "By splitting them out into their own head of household, that increases the number of families the quorum has to assign, and thus increases the number of 'families' assigned to a companionship. While not really increasing the number of homes to visit, having 12+ families on a route has a negative psychological impact." And so on and so forth.
What counsel should I be providing the Clerks, EQ and HPG leaders?