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A mother has created a debate online after admitting that she finds it strange for parents to ask their adult children to pay their rent.
Statistics published earlier this year show that the ratio of 25 to 34-year-olds living with their parents has risen by more than a third in just under two decades.
The share of this age group living at home was almost a fifth (18 percent) last year, of 13 percent in 2006, according to the Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS) in its ‘Hotel of Mum and Dad?’ report.
In 2018, it was reported that millennials could expect to pay a total of £ 1.584 a year to live with their parents.
Now a mum from the UK has set fire to a discussion on Mumsnet after she said she finds strange that her friend is charging her teenage daughter to live with them.
The mother wrote: ‘My friend has a daughter (17) she rents. My family did the same as I grew up. Am I the only one who thinks it has set up your children for failure and greedy to load your children because they stayed in their children’s home? “
She added: ‘I want my kids to afford their own place not to make it harder for them. The only thing I would do was pretend and then give it all back to them ”
Answers to the post have been mixed so far. One person said: ‘It depends on the situation completely. If an 18-year-old has a job and still lives with their parent, and the parent is not financially good, why should the parent continue to pay for the child’s lifestyle?
‘Maybe the parent/s struggled for years to pay bills, work hard, etc. The child must pay their own path. If the older is financially good and it can afford not to charge rent, fantastic. “
Another one argued: ‘You realize that some people have little money and cannot provide for an adult – even if the child becomes an adult, there is no child advantage, but they are no longer counted for others Benefits like Universal Credit. If the adult child works, you lose the tax discount on advice. Many people need their working son or daughter to contribute to the accounts. There is the assumption that adult children contribute to accounts.
“I think rent rent is quite unusual, but the drawer is not and I think completely reasonably. If you are rich enough to feed, hold and pay all the accounts of your adult child, it is the individual, but with the cost of living crisis, many people simply cannot afford to subsidize. ‘
“My view is if a child is over 18 and works full -time (not in education), then they have to pay, of course,” a third person climbed in.
‘Mainly because it teaches their financial responsibility. Life is not free. Having your full income as pocket money is not a good life lesson at all. Second, why should other adults in my home pay and subsidize? “
Someone else shared their own experience and wrote: ‘I don’t call it’ rent ‘as such. It is ‘paid for you’ and it was always the norm in my experience where the boy/ daughter is employed. ‘
A Firth-Person did agree with the original post and said, “No, I do not charge my 19-year-old, because I encourage her to save money for a home deposit.
“It’s hard enough nowadays that young people get on the ladder these days, why would I want to put her even further back?”
