I've read loads of things with people saying that they pay £10 a week and parent who say we shouldn't get charged to live at home, so me paying £80 /week adds up.
I'm not being funny but your parents have looked after you and provided for you since you were born. Now you are capable of looking after yourself and paying bills. I don't know your parents situation but maybe your parents need the money to pay bills. Alternatively you could look into moving out.
Children typically don't enjoy having to grow up, so I'm not surprised.
Yes, but throwing them out at 18 won't do them any good. I don't mean to be racist (I probably will look like it now) but this is a typical white thing to do, no chinese, indian or arab family would dream of throwing their kids out at 18.
This is how kids end up on drugs/alcohol and/or the streets, you give them no support.
I think the government should pay child benefit to 21, call it support allowance after 18. Even throwing someone out at 21 is bad, people only really mature into the late twenties, early thirties.
I'm not being funny but your parents have looked after you and provided for you since you were born. Now you are capable of looking after yourself and paying bills. I don't know your parents situation but maybe your parents need the money to pay bills. Alternatively you could look into moving out.
Yes, but throwing them out at 18 won't do them any good. I don't mean to be racist (I probably will look like it now) but this is a typical white thing to do, no chinese, indian or arab family would dream of throwing their kids out at 18.
This is how kids end up on drugs/alcohol and/or the streets, you give them no support.
I think the government should pay child benefit to 21, call it support allowance after 18. Even throwing someone out at 21 is bad, people only really mature into the late twenties, early thirties.
Thanks for your responses. Just to clarify I'm not 18 yet (hence why I'm asking) but I get that it's a good amount to pay with everything else being paid for.
Thanks for your responses. Just to clarify I'm not 18 yet (hence why I'm asking) but I get that it's a good amount to pay with everything else being paid for.
If you're working full time i d say being under 18 is a major difference in my mind, i offered my mum my ema at that age. They wont be paying council tax for you yet i think but that amount would be covering a third of household bills i recon and i bet you're good at budgeting now you pay for your keep
If you're working full time i d say being under 18 is a major difference in my mind, i offered my mum my ema at that age. They wont be paying council tax for you yet i think but that amount would be covering a third of household bills i recon and i bet you're good at budgeting now you pay for your keep
Ah right! I don't mind helping with bills and stuff and i like finding ways to save my money
Yes, but throwing them out at 18 won't do them any good. I don't mean to be racist (I probably will look like it now) but this is a typical white thing to do, no chinese, indian or arab family would dream of throwing their kids out at 18.
This is how kids end up on drugs/alcohol and/or the streets, you give them no support.
I think the government should pay child benefit to 21, call it support allowance after 18. Even throwing someone out at 21 is bad, people only really mature into the late twenties, early thirties.
I know various people from minority ethnic backgrounds who were thrown out by their parents. You are right that it is certainly far less common though. There is a big difference between asking them to leave, and creating very reasonable conditions of residence that they can choose to opt out of.
Asking for your child to make a contribution to their upkeep is entirely reasonable, even if you don't need the money. It teaches them something about responsibility. My child will be doing so as soon as they leave school. If I don't need the money, it will all go into an account they won't know about to be used as a mortgage deposit or whatever. The lesson is valuable.
If you have the money, you should help your parents. I moved out at 16 and have routinely helped my mum out with considerable amounts of money. It seems ridiculous to me that an adult would expect to be in a position to help and not offer to. Let alone waiting to be asked. I agree with you that people mature throughout their 20s, but delaying your child's adulthood for no good reason does them no favours.
I recognise that there are cultural differences, and respect a parents right to support their child for as long as they want. I also commend parents who don't want to let their progeny become overgrown toddlers.
Thanks for your responses. Just to clarify I'm not 18 yet (hence why I'm asking) but I get that it's a good amount to pay with everything else being paid for.
but you work full time? if you've left education then your parents have lost the child support they used to get for you
£25 at least will be going on your food every week, possible more like £30 given they won't be shopping on a student budget
that leaves £50 which goes pretty quickly on bills, there'll be maybe £10-20 left for them to have just for rent