co-sign!? Card company is taking legal action against child.

No, you are not responsible.

However, the collections agency will do anything in their power to get you to pay off that debt. They do not care who pays it, and will harass as many people as it takes to get the job done. Don't get scammed into taking care of your grown child's debts. Just because they are acting like a kid doesn't mean you have to take care of them still.

Good luck, and SEND NO MONEY PERIOD!

Probably unless you want to charge him with theft, being an adult he could go to jail,

This may require a counselor and he should be forced to pay, and pay rent if he doesn't.

So many men live at home and rob their folks or feel the world owes them a living.

What he did is a felony, get him to understan that and the cosequences

What the others said is hypotheically true but it is your credit rating that will suffer if you don't apy the amount charged. The creditor doesn't care about your domestic problems, it runs like a machine