Parent Charging Rent

[LawResearcherMissy]

Yeah, Bill, SELFISH.

I didn't bring two people into the world just so I would have someone to look after me when I'm old. I don't believe in indentured servitude.

It's my job to make sure I'm taken care of when I'm old, and it would be wrong of me to expect my children to take on such a burden. I've made sufficient provisions for my owndamnedself, thanks. My kids will be busy trying to provide for their own families, and won't need an extra burden.

[BOR]

Yeah, Bill, SELFISH.

I didn't bring two people into the world just so I would have someone to look after me when I'm old. I don't believe in indentured servitude.

It's my job to make sure I'm taken care of when I'm old, and it would be wrong of me to expect my children to take on such a burden. I've made sufficient provisions for my owndamnedself, thanks. My kids will be busy trying to provide for their own families, and won't need an extra burden.

This post does not surprise me a bit.

Yeah I am sure you have taken care of everything, even the money it takes to be in a nursing home after you are paralyzed from the waist down or have dementia.

If your husbad died tomorrow and you hve a major stroke next week and were paralyzed, I am sure you have everything taken care of.

[Baystategirl]

I think the point of this post has gotten off track.

Is it "legal" to charge R'nB to a minor? Yes it is.

[LawResearcherMissy]

If your husbad died tomorrow and you hve a major stroke next week and were paralyzed, I am sure you have everything taken care of.

I make twice as much as my husband does, and we're both heavily insured. Any more complaints and fussing because I didn't birth servants?

Honestly, Bill, I don't know what your damage is here.

[SChinFChin]

Just got a chance to read this thread, and I can easily see how even "reasonable" adults can get into shouting matches, let alone a dad and his "snotty" kid.

We don't know the true extent of the relationship between the 17 year old and his dad, except only through people who know ths son, with the view that the dad is a raving "lunatic". That may or may not be so, but I know some parents who are quite "old fashioned", like my own parents, who can turn into raving lunatics if I just "get that attitude", and look at them the wrong way.

My sister had a daugher, now in her 30's, but my sister is a "new age" parent, not the shouting type. My neice, at 17 decided it was too strict at home, friends not allowed to hang out at the house with no parental supervision because TV's were stolen, decided to leave the dictatorshhip and have her freedom.

She had a part time job, but also didn't help with the bills. She went to live with a friend, then went apartment hunting. When she found her place, told her mom that her mom had better turn over her deceased dad's survivor benefits. because it's legally hers, and she needed that for the apartment.

My sister found out that the apartment her daughter wanted, at the time cost $800/month, more than what she herself is paying, and my sister who herself left home because of strict parents checked rooming houses, and at the time, they went for less than $250/month.

Anyway, my neice explained that she grew up in a "carpeted, air conditioned apartment", and all she wanted was a "newly carpeted, air conditioned" apartment, not a $250/month dump.

My sister told her daughter that as far as the law is concerned, she is a run-away, and she can tell some judge that mom is keeping HER benefits, but no judge would buy it. But to listen to the way the daughter tells the story, her mom is a raving lunatic who insists that she pays rent at home.

So, I've been there, and seen it. And because my sister is not a disciplinarian by any means, this older daughter of hers dropped out of school at 16, and only did her GED years later.

I had a talk with my boss about this, and she said a relative of hers, claimed his dad was a raving lunatic, but the truth is, whenever his dad asks him to do anything, he'll have a "smart alec" answer, and snotty look. But as the saying goes, "what goes around comes around", his own son now does the same thing, and claims his dad is a raving lunatic.

Getting back to the orginal question, parents are certainly entitled to ask kids to help pay the bills, and when the kid has a problem with it, would always proclaim "he has the nerve to charge me RENT, and it is not legal".

As I said, if my own daughter ever said that to me, the answer is "get your fat tail outta here when you're 18, and don't bother me anymore".