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Board Economics
Re: Is it Ideal for parents to demand rent from their child who stays with them?
by
Franctoshi
on 18/07/2025, 20:43:33 UTC
My question stems from a 2023 article of a woman who charged her daughter $75 per month to add to their bills since she now works.

Generally, working-class children who stay with their parents do so to be able to save up enough money to start a fresh journey in life. Although it's still cheap to contribute to the bills like paying rent, buying groceries, etc compared to when they live outside their parent's house. But, young people like the girl in the article find it outrageous. Going through the article I saw responses from parents who admit they do the same thing. Do you think it's fine as a parent to demand bills such as rent from your working-class child because s/he stays in your house?

https://www.boredpanda.com/daughter-angry-mom-increases-contribution-to-bills/

N/B: this thread is not exactly what happened in the article above.

With the said amount of money that the daughter earns in a month, it's necessary the child start to support their aging parents in one way or the other, because that’s one of the reasons she was raised and be trained in school to be able to help out and to take care of her parents, if this were to be from my side and, the child earns such amount of money, the parents do not even need to tell their daughter what do, because the girl will take up the bills herself without their parents having to tell her, because this is the manner with which people are being raised up here.