If you still live at home, do you have to pay 'housekeeping'?

What bank loans are practically interest free and don't have to be repaid until you're earning 15,000 a year?!

So you receive money from the government instead of from your parents. You're still relying on someone other than yourself to get you through university. That makes you no better than those who get money from their parents.

But surely the majority of parents (especially amongst TSR users) don't receive child benefits? Like I said before, if there's actual financial need, it's understandable.

I disagree, in most cases. Most people (I imagine) actually WANT to move out. Very few people want to live under their parents' roof longer than is necessary.

that is far too much, I consider £50 to be fair

I don't know if someone has said this already but Child Benefit is a non-means tested benefit, meaning that all parents are entitled to it. So, once children reach the age of 16 (or 18 uf they carry on with their education), that's seventy-odd pounds gone... so parents, as well as losing part of their income, have to carry on paying for an adult to live? Not right.

Didn't somebody remind these people before they had children that raising children costs money?

If you want to spend 100% of your income on yourself, DON'T HAVE CHILDREN. Or if you do, don't start bitching the day they turn 18.

Didn't somebody remind these people before they had children that raising children costs money?

If you want to spend 100% of your income on yourself, DON'T HAVE CHILDREN. Or if you do, don't start bitching the day they turn 18.

but they r not 'children' at 18...

but they r not 'children' at 18...

but they r not 'children' at 18...

They're still your children until you die. Whether they're children in the eyes of the law is entirely irrelevant to family relations.

Having children is a lifelong commitment, not an 18 year one. Family members help each other out during times of need, that's what they do. My parents make thousands of times more money than I do since I'm still a student and they've been working for several decades; therefore, they would get no satisfaction out of taking my money and they pay for my education. They WANT me to be educated, so they're happy to do it. I'll do the same for my children. My mother is 52 and if she needed financial assistance, her parents would be happy to help her, since they have much more money than they need. And they're FAMILY. You don't stop being family when you turn 18. You lot must have really poor family values if you think a parent/child relationship suddenly transforms into a landlord/tenant relationship the second you turn 18.

In conclusion:

Fair enough if you're working full-time.
Fair enough if there's actual financial need in your family.

But if you're in full-time education and there's no actual financial need, then it's a ridiculous abuse of the family system for your parents to expect you to give them money.

Is while they're in full-time education the best time for this?

If I was a parent, I'd rather my children concentrate on their education AND be able to save their wages so they could move out after their education is finished. And sure, they can get pissed with their mates if they want, provided it's with their own money. I'd want them to have fun during the best years of their life.

Or, I could charge them rent while they're still at uni, not enabling them to save their wages, and therefore making it more likely that they'll stay at home after uni. Hmmmm.



And nobody's forced to do it in the UK. There are free contraception and free abortions available. Don't want to commit to 18 years+? Don't!

Who thinks they're entitled to a share of their parent's income when they're working full-time?

They're still your children until you die. Whether they're children in the eyes of the law is entirely irrelevant to family relations.

Having children is a lifelong commitment, not an 18 year one. Family members help each other out during times of need, that's what they do. My parents make thousands of times more money than I do since I'm still a student and they've been working for several decades; therefore, they would get no satisfaction out of taking my money and they pay for my education. They WANT me to be educated, so they're happy to do it. I'll do the same for my children. My mother is 52 and if she needed financial assistance, her parents would be happy to help her, since they have much more money than they need. And they're FAMILY. You don't stop being family when you turn 18. You lot must have really poor family values if you think a parent/child relationship suddenly transforms into a landlord/tenant relationship the second you turn 18.

In conclusion:

Fair enough if you're working full-time.
Fair enough if there's actual financial need in your family.

But if you're in full-time education and there's no actual financial need, then it's a ridiculous abuse of the family system for your parents to expect you to give them money.

They're still your children until you die. Whether they're children in the eyes of the law is entirely irrelevant to family relations.

Having children is a lifelong commitment, not an 18 year one. Family members help each other out during times of need, that's what they do. My parents make thousands of times more money than I do since I'm still a student and they've been working for several decades; therefore, they would get no satisfaction out of taking my money and they pay for my education. They WANT me to be educated, so they're happy to do it. I'll do the same for my children. My mother is 52 and if she needed financial assistance, her parents would be happy to help her, since they have much more money than they need. And they're FAMILY. You don't stop being family when you turn 18. You lot must have really poor family values if you think a parent/child relationship suddenly transforms into a landlord/tenant relationship the second you turn 18.

In conclusion:

Fair enough if you're working full-time.
Fair enough if there's actual financial need in your family.

But if you're in full-time education and there's no actual financial need, then it's a ridiculous abuse of the family system for your parents to expect you to give them money.

Good for you if your parents make lots of money and your grandparents are "multi millionaires" but not every one has rich parents.

Your parents obviously don't need your money and my parents probably wouldn't expect me to pay them rent etc if they were loaded too but they would expect something out of me. My parents don't expect money from me while I live with them during holidays but they do expect me to get a job and to help around the house. I think though if you are working and living with your parents as an adult that it is only polite and respectful to at least offer to pay your way.

You say you can only understand 'children' paying housekeeping if there is a real financial need - could you explain please? For example is it only parents on the dole or working under a certain amount of hours a week who should ask their children for money?

Quite, and it never ceases to amaze me; how many parents haven't the least compunction about adopting such a reprehensibly cynical, if not wholly unethical, position which is tantamount to profiting from their own offspring. My mother has told me she expects only that I shouldn't leave her at a deficit; which strikes me as perfectly reasonable, and will entail a contribution in the region of but twenty or thirty pounds per week.