I have been reading of both scenarios (keep their status or lose their status) so I don't know what the actual truth is at the moment. In the olden days, the policy was that you shared status but not points...and your status remained at whatever level it was when they turned 18, regardless of how many points they had (or didn't have). They were never reverted back to the status that reflected their number of points. I have read many accounts recently of children's status being reverted back to reflect their actual points. Not sure if the policy has changed (without informing anyone, BTW) or if there are just some ill-informed LA that are doing it wrong.