Do your parents make you pay rent?

I'm sorry you live in a 'household' like that.
but I live in a FAMILY whereby we support eachother. If I use the computer I know I don't have to go and pay for it, because they love me and see me as their daughter...not just some random boarding at this house.
What I said was not an excuse, ok I said it in a funny way. But for me the only reason as to why a child should pay to live at home, is if they're earning more an their parents, if their parents are bum poor, they voluntarily do it, or they are 30...but apart from that they shouldnt have to.
I think any parent who forces their child to live with them is selfish. And if I was forced to pay board I wouldn't be living here I can tell you that much.

i too live in a family (well my parents have split up but thats niether here nor there). there is nothing wrong with paying your way. My mother loves me and sees me as her son but i am not a child, i work and can pay my way. My mother isnt well off and my living with her is a mutual benefical way of doing it niether of us can afford to live on our own yet together we can just manage it reletively comfortably. But even when my parents were together we paid rent. Its only fair. My mother doesnt force me to live with her and i wold agree that a parent who forces thier child to live with them is being selfish and to then make that child pay rent is worse. I should add that its like living with a "parent" i dont have to say when im coming or going i can bring back who want providing i let her know beforehand. and im not exactly on a curfew

Your last comment strikes me firstly as naievette. Where do you think you could live cheaper than where most people do living at home. Few parents charge thier children the same amount as a landlord does and even fewer charge them extra for leccy and food. Do you have the means to support yourself?
Secondly you moving out if they do try to charge you rent strikes me as A. sponging (i mean that as unnofensively as possible) and cutting off your nose to spite your face

And to me if they just decided to start charging me, I said I'd move out because I would see that as them being rude, and I refuse to take any ****. But I know my family would never want me to pay board. I think if one is cleaning after themselves or at least helping out a bit around the house, there should be no need to physically pay them UNLESS money is an issue ofcourse!

My mum doesn't charge me rent when I'm at home because I'm in full-time education,. However, if I had a job instead - or even if I was just a lazy bum - then she'd charge me 'housekeeping'.
When I see my dad, he doesn't charge me rent either, but that's probably because I'm normally there to visit him. I did live with him over the summer because I was working nearby, but he didn't charge me anything because it's his way of helping me while I'm a poor student.

I don't think a parent asking a child to pay rent is rude. It helps the child see what actually happens in the real world. If you think parents asking for rent are rude, how are you going to cope with landlords, who can be extremely rude and a small percentage can attempt to rip people off. If you're an adult, you should be able to take some responsibility. I mean, cleaning after yourself is helpful, but it wont pay for the electricity which you use, water you use, etc. As I now rent a student house I now appreciate how much everything costs and I can see why parents, even if they are lucky enough not to experience money problems, ask their children for money. Running a household is not cheap.

ur probably daddys little princess though

I think parents asking for rent is rude and I coped very well with having a landlord, thank you very much. This is quite possibly because the landlord wasn't my parent and because I was living in their property so that they could make a profit, not out of any sense of parental love on their part.



I'm a bit confused. Who forced her to have six children?

renting a house/paying landlord and living with family/in a home are two very different things imo.

The fact that you have to let her know who's coming back with you kinda proves that it isn't like just living with someone, she is your mother.

The difference is that when you bring a person into the world, you are choosing to take on a level of (unpaid) responsibility over that person.

A landlord does nothing of that sort when he signs a rental agreement with you.